A new study published in the British Medical Journal finds that China had 32 million more males than females under the age of 20 in 2005.
Industrialized countries typically had 107 male births for every 100 girls in 2005; however, it was 119 to 100 in China. There were 1.1 million excess births of boys.
China’s gender gap will have significant implications for teaching for decades to come as schools continue to be populated primarily by boys.