Literacy and the sex ratio
Obviously literacy (and education) does not cause this trend. What it does suggest though is that if the social structure is in place to favor boys over girls, and if the economic means are there, then a better educated population is actually more at risk. This is surprising: one would have thought that a higher literacy rate (and thus better education) would correlate with a more enlightened attitude towards females. Sadly, this seems not to be the case.





