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Essay / Gender Stratification in China's One-Child Policy
Who was the leader under whom China's population exploded. Confucius b. Jackie Chanc. Xi Jinpingd. Mao ZedongD, because their population exploded before the one-child policy in the 1950s and 1960s under Mao Zedong2. Why do Chinese parents prefer boys? Boys are more likely to survive. Boys earn more moneyc. The boys will take care of themselves d. Girls are more difficult to raise because it is usually boys who take care of their parents as they get older, girls usually marry and move away3. What is not a problem created by the one-child policy?a. Boys far outnumber girls. They don't have enough workers to replace the aging workforce. c. The economy is in difficulty d. Girls are often killed, abandoned and aborted to have a boy, because the one-child policy has not yet shown any effects on the economy4. How do they attempt to reverse the negative side effects of the one-child policy? A. Family planning courseb. Educate people that women are as equal as men. Relaxation of the limitations of the one-child policy. All of this, because these are all ways that the Chinese people are using today to try to reverse the harmful effects of the one-child policy. They do all this to try to change things for the