... contrast, is flawed because it ignores the sharp diversity within each region. Not all Asian countries have this problem and few if any Western countries are free of gender biases completely. Economic development explains the problem as the consequence of underdevelopment and poverty. The fact that only poor countries experience this problem is true, but not all poor counties have it. Moreover, "the fact that sex ratios have been falling as aggregate income has been rising seems inconsistent with a purely economic view of missing women" (Chamarbagwala & Ranger, 2006). The explanation of women deficit, proposed by Oster (2005), is based on medical findings which suggests that "women infected with the Hepatitis B virus tend to give birth to fewer girls than healthy women, with the latter attributing up to 20% of India's missing girls to the virus" (Klassen & Wink, 2003). If that is the case, there are still ...

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