15. Female Disadvantage

Global Problems of Population Growth (MCDB 150)

In East and South Asia there are many more boys than girls. Previously, this resulted from female infanticide, now it is sex-selective abortion. In those cultures, girls generally marry out of the family as teenagers and thus provide no benefit for the family that raised them. Bangla Desh is agriculturally very rich, but its population is so dense that per capita income is one of the lowest in Asia. Despite the poverty, an excellent family planning program has greatly reduced fertility.

00:00 - Chapter 1. Sex Ratios
15:31 - Chapter 2. Sex Selective Abortion
25:15 - Chapter 3. Genetic Sex Ratios and Cultural Sex Ratios
37:53 - Chapter 4. Other Examples of Female Disadvantage
44:12 - Chapter 5. Population in Bangladesh
58:36 - Chapter 6. Bangladesh and Family Planning
01:08:32 - Chapter 7. Family Planning in India

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This course was recorded in Spring 2009.