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'I almost lost my will to live': preference for sons is leaving young women in China exploited and abused

By Chih-Ling Liu, Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Lancaster University
China has a gender crisis. The country has a huge surplus of men – around 722 million compared to 690 million women in 2022. This is largely because of sex-selective abortions linked to China’s one-child policy, which ended in 2015.

Though popular belief is that the policy was strictly enforced, many Chinese couples managed…The Conversation


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