Sunday, June 20, 2010

The End of Men - Magazine - The Atlantic - Flash Player Installation

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-end-of-men/8135/1/

"As recently as 1985, about half of all women in a national survey said they "must have a son." That percentage fell slowly until 1991 and then plummeted to just over 15 percent by 2003. Male preference in South Korea "is over," says Monica Das Gupta, a demographer and Asia expert at the World Bank. "It happened so fast. It's hard to believe it, but it is." The same shift is now beginning in other rapidly industrializing countries such as India and China."

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