Missing Women of Asia

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The phenomenon of the missing women of Asia is a shortfall in the number of women in Asia relative to the number that would be expected if there was no sex- selective abortion or female infanticide or if the newborn of both sexes received similar levels of health care and nutrition. The phenomenon was first noted by the Indian Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen in an essay in The New York Review of Books in 1990, and expanded upon in his subsequent academic work. Sen originally estimated that more than a 100 million women were "missing" (in the sense that their potential existence had been eliminated either through sex selective abortion, infanticide or inadequate nutrition during infancy).