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    The Case For Girls
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    1. mass87 16 Sep 2018
      The evidence is mounting that baby girls are a strong investment. “An important future indicator for a developing economy is its treatment of women,” says Sheryl WuDunn, coauthor with husband Nicholas Kristof of Half the Sky, a best seller turned PBS series turned online game that dubs girl power “the best way to fight poverty and extremism.

      This stylistic twist allows the writer to emphasize on the value of women in our growing society, and on her expectations of changes from the society with regard to the women.

    2. mass87 15 Sep 2018
      Historically, when nature is allowed to determine sex all on its own, about 105 boys are born for every 100 girls (and because women live longer, the ratio of people on the planet evens out over time, even tilting slightly toward females). But the balance of nature has shifted in Asia, thanks to wider availability of affordable ultrasound equipment, which detects gender as early as 15 weeks, and widespread abortion

      Nature by itself has in the time, tipped the scales toward the male sex at birth but re-tipped them towards female sex as they are taking age. However, the modern society especially asian one, once equipped with technological power, stops as early as possible the birth of girls.

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