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The bias in favour of boys is shrinking in developing countries even as a preference for girls emerges in the rich world
Millions of girls were aborted for being girls. Now parents often lean towards them
Surprise: it’s still motherhood
But special “mum jobs” are hardly helping
Bipaternal human children, though, are still far away
America’s child-care gender gap is narrowing rapidly
