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China's Great Gender Crisis

For the Guardian, Tania Branigan reports that as traditional preferences for male children are eroding, the alarming gender gap in the population may slowly shift back to normal levels. She visits the city of Shengzhou. where in the late 1980s, 129 males were born per 100 females. By the turn of the century, the ratio had returned to normal: You do not have to look far for part of the explanation.