Why China's Gender Gap Persists

Abstract

Provinces spent millions of yuan outfitting birth planning stations with the machines - so many that a 1994 guide for American businesses looking to break into the Chinese market listed ultrasound machines as a "HOT item." After receiving early reports of infanticide and sex-selective abortion, the government in 1984 amended the one-child policy so that rural couples could try again for a son if the first child was a girl.