Piyali Somaia

Graduate Researcher, Gender and Women's Health Unit, Centre for Health Equity, School of Population and Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne

Health & Medicine

Where are all the missing girls?

A preference for sons in patriarchal societies across the world means we are missing 126 million women. Here is what we can do about it.

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