Sex Ratio

Indian women go to US to use sex selection to have sons

Jared Yee | 18 June 2011

While India has a problem with sex selection, it is – technically speaking – illegal. According to a University of California study, under pressure to have sons, some Indian women emigrate to the US to make use of the more readily available reproductive technologies and liberal abortion policies.

India’s bad sex ratio worsens

Michael Cook | 02 April 2011

Early returns for the 2011 census shows that the number of girls to 1,000 boys has shrunk to 914 girls to every 1000 boys, down from 927 in 2001.

Improvement in Indian sex ratio may have been illusory

Michael Cook | 18 September 2010

Parents latch onto new subsidy

IVF technique reverses baby gender ratio

Michael Cook | 05 December 2009

Cloud over ICSI