living in rural areas. These numbers can be misleading though, since millions of Thais migrate from rural to urban areas and then back again throughout the year to help with seasonal field world. Many of these people have official rural residency but spend much of the year living in urban ...
The portion of the world’s population living in high-fertility countries has declined. The portion of the world’s population living in countries with fertility at or above the replacement level—2.1 births per woman—has fallen. The United Nations projects that “in 2025–2030, only a thi...
As of April 24, 2017, the world population was estimated to have reached 7,500,000,000 according to United Nation. The report said population would increase by 11.2 billion in the year 2100. It is observed that there is a continuing s growth since the end of the Black Death and great ...
Shortage of girls in China today China has the most severe shortage of girls compared to boys of any country in the world today, as documented by China's surveys and censuses up to 2000. T... J Banister - 《Journal of Population Research》 被引量: 472发表: 2004年 Endangered Daughters,...
Girls from around the world report feeling ashamed and afraid. The potential health effects of such experiences include a weakening of girls' sense of self-confidence and competence, which in turn may comprise girls' abilities to assert themselves in different situations, including in relation to ...
Empowering Young Sex Workers for Safer Sex in Dowa and Lilongwe Districts of Malawi Although prostitution is illegal in Malawi it is still a popular trade among young girls with more than sixty percent of young sex workers being solely dep... B Kalanda - 《Malawi Medical Journal》 被引量: ...
The sharing of resources within poor households in India is often unequal as men and boys usually get more than women and girls. Women also carry a disproportionate burden in fertility choices. The total fertility rate is between 6 and 8 in Sub-Saharan Africa with nearly half of a womans li...
Peer Interaction of Young Children The world of play and games has been relegated to a minor position in the study of childhood socialization. This study accords a more important role in the socialization process to the games children play. It asks: are there sex differen... B Soediono 被引...
Women make up 50percent of world's population and yet they are not treated equally.They hold less than one-fifth of the all parliamentary (议会) seats around the world,occupy less than 19percent of board (董事会) seats in Fortune 500companies and earn 17percent less than men for similar ...
1993). Not only was there prenatal sex selection, but the mortality rate of girls aged 0–4 years was also abnormally high in the 1990s because of discrimination against girls (Li et al. 1999). Studies reveal that the preference for sons is strongly related to gender inequality that ...