Unnatural Selection: Sex Selection and Asia's 160 Millon 'Missing' Females
Thanks mainly to sex selective abortion, there are over 160 million females missing from Asia’s population and an unknown number missing from other continents. Here, Mara Hvistendahl '02 examines how this gap is transforming communities, leading to everything from a spike in bride-buying to an increase in crime — and details how the West played a role in sparking this global problem.