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LAST WEEK\u2019S NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE<\/em><\/strong> focused on \u201cSaving the World\u2019s Women.\u201d You can get the introduction here<\/a>\u2013alternately heartbreaking and inspiring\u2013and some cautions here<\/a>. From the latter article, which is less personal but still necessary:<\/p>\n

\u2026Yet these strategies \u2014 though invaluable \u2014 underestimate the complexity of the situation in certain countries. To be sure, China and India are poor. But in both nations, girls are actually more likely to be missing in richer areas than in poorer ones, and in cities than in rural areas. Having more money, a better education and (in India) belonging to a higher caste all raise the probability that a family will discriminate against its daughters. The bias against girls applies in some of the wealthiest and best-educated nations in the world, including, in recent years, South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore. It also holds among Indian immigrants in Britain and among Chinese, Indian and South Korean immigrants in the United States. In the last few years, the percentage of missing girls has been among the highest in the middle-income, high-education nations of the Caucasus: Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. <\/p>\n
Nor does a rise in a woman\u2019s autonomy or power in the family necessarily counteract prejudice against girls. Researchers at the International Food Policy Research Institute have found that while increasing women\u2019s decision-making power would reduce discrimination against girls in some parts of South Asia, it would make things worse in the north and west of India. \u201cWhen women\u2019s power is increased,\u201d wrote Lisa C. Smith and Elizabeth M. Byron, \u201cthey use it to favor boys.\u201d \u2026<\/p>\n
What Das Gupta discovered is that wealthier and more educated women face this same imperative to have boys as uneducated poor women \u2014 but they have smaller families, thus increasing the felt urgency of each birth. In a family that expects to have seven children, the birth of a girl is a disappointment; in a family that anticipates only two or three children, it is a tragedy.<\/p>\n
Thus development can worsen, not improve, traditional discrimination.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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