The routine elimination of female foetuses, solely because they are not male, is something we must all work to end.
The motive for this disproportionate focus on female gendercide is not truly obvious. It may be the effect of an effort to correct for the long omission of the plight of women from international law governing conflict. But, even so, there is no logical reason that male gendercide should be ignored.
Most, if not all, of the agreed solutions fall away when we know gendercide as a global problem. Activists have always spoken of the necessity to economically authorize women, to inform women of their rights and to rectify legal enforcements. These are all the solutions to problems that don’t exist in the US, Australia or the UK. Those fighting to end gendercide have always kept belief in modernization as a strength that will uproot the “backward culture” of son-preference. But modernization, though necessary, has been proved to be