More Than 100 Million Women Are Missing by Amartya Sen | The New York Review of Books

A great read to think about women in the world.

It is often said that women make up a majority of the world’s population. They do not. This mistaken belief is based on generalizing from the contemporary situation in Europe and North America, where the ratio of women to men is typically around 1.05 or 1.06, or higher. In South Asia, West Asia, and China, the ratio of women to men can be as low as 0.94, or even lower, and it varies widely elsewhere in Asia, in Africa, and in Latin America. How can we understand and explain these differences, and react to them?

More Than 100 Million Women Are Missing by Amartya Sen | The New York Review of Books