{"id":8598,"date":"2011-04-28T21:04:06","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T21:04:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-04-28T21:04:06","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T21:04:06","slug":"China-s-Race-with-the-Gender-Gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=8598","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Race with the Gender Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>China has rolled out new population figures, unearthing\u2014among a host of fresh data\u2014some revealing information on the gender gap.  The good news: China\u2019s gender gap is shrinking. The bad news: It may not be shrinking fast enough.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>According to figures released Thursday by the National Bureau of Statistics, slightly less than 51.3% of China\u2019s population is male, falling from just above 51.6% in the year 2000. According to the state-run Xinhua news agency, the current male-female ratio is the most balanced since the country\u2019s first national census in 1953. <\/p>\n<p>The new numbers can be explained partly by government efforts to fight sex-selective abortion, which, as the state-run Global Times noted in a report last year, became something of an epidemic after China introduced the one-child policy in 1980. Although Beijing has rejected proposals to criminalize elective abortion of female fetuses, parts of China began banning the use of ultrasound to determine the sex of a fetus in the year 2000, periodically cracking down on clinics that continue to offer sex-selective abortion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The narrowing of the gap might also have benefited from a gradual shift in favor of female children among middle class parents in larger cities, some of whom dread the expense of eventually having to pay for a son\u2019s wedding and buy him an apartment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/chinarealtime\/2011\/04\/29\/china%e2%80%99s-race-with-the-gender-gap\/\" title=\"SOURCE\">SOURCE<\/a><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has rolled out new population figures, unearthing\u2014among a host of fresh data\u2014some revealing information on the gender gap. 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