My Ideas

I was watching a video on female infanticide.  There is a practice in China and India in which female babies are murdered by their parents because girls are not valued in those countries.  They give reasons such as "It's a patriarchal system and "Girls are a drain on the family".  The real reason though that girls are devalued in some societies is because of the population growth rate.         When the population of a country is growing due to high birth rate then women will be devalued.  If the birth rate is negative then women will be highly valued.  This takes time though.   This is because when the birth rate is high the ratio of older males to younger females is high.  Women seem to like older men and men seem to like younger women.  I guess my theory could have a flaw if in fact women's attraction to men older themselves is caused by the high birthrate itself.  This could be the case because people tend to value that which is rare rather than that which