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An important ethnic marker, the practice was known by the Kikuyu, the country's main ethnic group, as irua for both girls and boys. It involved excision (Type II) for girls and removal of the foreskin for boys. Unexcised Kikuyu women (irugu) were outcasts. [187]
The mortality rate of girls will likely decrease as gender discrimination decreases. [32] Some articles argue that sex imbalance is a way to control China's large population. [33] Ironically, a shortage of women may lead to increased female status, causing the son preference to decrease. [34]
In some cultures, including Botswana [70] and Nigeria, [63] women can select a woman with whom she allows her husband to sleep with in hopes of conceiving a child. [63] Women who are desperate for children may compromise with her husband to select a woman and accept duties of taking care of the children to feel accepted and useful in society.
The Huffington Post and YouGov asked 124 women why they choose to be childfree. Their motivations ranged from preferring their current lifestyles (64 percent) to prioritizing their careers (9 percent) — a.k.a. fairly universal things that have motivated men not to have children for centuries.
Amartya Sen noticed that in China, rapid economic development went together with worsening female mortality and higher sex ratios. [12] [13] Although China has been traditionally discriminatory against women, a significant decline in China's female population happened after 1979, the year following implementation of economic and social reforms under Deng Xiaoping. [12]
Western men tend to view women taller than themselves as less attractive, [122] and many people view heterosexual couples where the woman is taller to be less ideal. [122] Women who are 0.7 to 1.7 standard deviations below the mean female height have been reported to be the most reproductively successful, [ 117 ] since fewer tall women get ...
No one's sure exactly why this woman had a story to tell, because this woman lived as many as 6,000 years ago. We can still imagine her intoning scary scenes with foreign howls. A charming man's buttery voice might've won over a reluctant, longhaired princess; a beguiling forest creature's dry cackle a smoke signal for danger.
When you’re young, midlife feels like an abstract and distant concept. Something you know you’ll hit one day, even if you can’t fully picture it. Or don’t want to. In my early 20s ...