Charlotte MacDonald
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first heard Sep 2010
last heard Apr 2025
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This led him to think many females are missing from the world's population because of neglect.
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If they'd been treated the same as boys, more would be alive.
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He wrote an influential paper in 1990 about the issue of what he termed missing women.
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He looked at countries where males and females receive similar treatment, for example, in Europe and North America.
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In those regions, there were more women than men, for the most part because women tend to live longer.
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He used those ratios and compared them to those he found in countries such as India and China, where there are fewer women.
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He reasoned that if females had been treated equally everywhere, there would be 100 million more women in the world at that time.
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Those were what he called the missing women.
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It really is.
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And it set off a huge public debate at the time.
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It got loads of publicity and lots of academics got involved.
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Other people copied his method.
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One of those is Stefan Klassen.
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He's an economist from the University of Göttingen in Germany, who I've been speaking to.
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Now, he estimates there is still about 100 million missing women today.
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Now, when Amartya Sen was looking at the data back in the 70s and 80s, he found that the cause was...
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However, today, both Amartya Sen and Stefan Klaasen say that parents neglect their daughters less than in the past.
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But instead, due to changes in technology and ultrasound, people are able to determine the sex of their baby before it's born, leading to more female abortions.
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One of the strange quirks of nature is that you might think there would be an equal number of girls and boys born.
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But actually, studies show that in most populations, more boys are born than girls.
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