Rareness of women does not increase their status. It increases trafficking, abuse, and incarceration.
I was going to post about that: when I first heard about Indians avoiding bringing women into the world, c. 20 years ago, I made the same misassumption about how that would affect the status of women, when in fact all that happened is the lot of wives got worse in as much as they started being 12 year olds shipped in from Bangladesh.
Finding this out (thanks to the good people at the BBC) has coloured all my future-looking thoughts and predictions.
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Re: FYI, in practice now...
Date: November 14th, 2003 09:42 am (UTC)From:I was going to post about that: when I first heard about Indians avoiding bringing women into the world, c. 20 years ago, I made the same misassumption about how that would affect the status of women, when in fact all that happened is the lot of wives got worse in as much as they started being 12 year olds shipped in from Bangladesh.
Finding this out (thanks to the good people at the BBC) has coloured all my future-looking thoughts and predictions.