{"id":3530,"date":"2013-01-05T09:03:49","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T08:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/?p=3530"},"modified":"2013-01-05T09:03:49","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T08:03:49","slug":"paper-asias-missing-women-as-a-problem-in-applied-evolutionary-psychology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/2013\/01\/paper-asias-missing-women-as-a-problem-in-applied-evolutionary-psychology\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper: \u201cAsia\u2019s Missing Women\u201d as a Problem in Applied Evolutionary Psychology?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/\u201cAsia\u2019s-missing-women\u201d-as-a-problem-in-applied-evolutionary-psychology.pdf\">\u201cAsia\u2019s missing women\u201d as a problem in applied evolutionary psychology<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Abstract:\u00a0 In many parts of Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, women and children <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">are so undervalued, neglected, abused, and so often killed, that sex ratios are now strongly <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">male biased. In recent decades, sex-biased abortion has exacerbated the problem. In this <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">article I highlight several important insights from evolutionary biology into both the origin <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">and the severe societal consequences of \u201cAsia\u2019s missing women\u201d,\u00a0 paying particular <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">attention\u00a0 to\u00a0 interactions between evolution, economics and culture. Son preferences and <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">associated cultural practices like patrilineal inheritance, patrilocality and the Indian Hindu <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">dowry system arise among the wealthy and powerful elites for reasons\u00a0 consistent with <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">models of sex-biased parental investment.\u00a0 Those practices then spread via imitation as <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">technology gets cheaper and economic development allows the middle class to grow <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">rapidly.\u00a0 I will consider evidence from India, China and elsewhere that grossly male-biased <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">sex ratios lead to increased crime, violence, local warfare, political instability, drug abuse, <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">prostitution and trafficking of women. The problem of Asia\u2019s missing women presents a <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">challenge for applied evolutionary psychology to help us understand\u00a0 and ameliorate sex <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">ratio biases and their most severe consequences<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>interesting problem. id heard of the problem in China, but not in the other countries, and definitely didnt expect it from Starcraftland aka. South Korea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAsia\u2019s missing women\u201d as a problem in applied evolutionary psychology Abstract:\u00a0 In many parts of Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, women and children are so undervalued, neglected, abused, and so often killed, that sex ratios are now strongly male biased. In recent decades, sex-biased abortion has exacerbated the problem. In this article I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1624,1921],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolutionary-psychology","category-sociology","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3532,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530\/revisions\/3532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}