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TIL There are over 190 million less women in the world because of sex-selective abortion and female infanticide

via reddit.com

From the earliest existence of historical records down to the present day, to be born female in India, China or the Arab states, indeed anywhere between Morocco and Shanghai, was extremely dangerous. In prerevolutionary China, childbirth preparations for thousands of years included the provision of a box of ashes next to the birthing bed, to suffocate a girl child as soon as she was born. Throughout India, methods of killing little girls took ingenious new forms in each different place: they were strangled, poisoned, thrown into the sea, exposed in the jungle, fed to sharks as a sacrifice to the gods, or drowned in milk with a prayer that they would come again as sons. As late as 1808 a British political commission found only half a dozen houses in the whole of Cutch where the fathers had not had all daughters born to them killed at birth.

— Rosalind Miles, Who Cooked The Last Supper