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GIRL POWER IN A NEW MILLENIUMA baby is either going to be a boy or a girl, and many people secretly have an instinctive preference. Are baby girls now what parents hope for? They fight less, do better in school, and are less likely to get into trouble. The rise of baby girl power, it appeals, reflects the gender revolution of the timer.Once boys would do. They hunted, gathered, fought, inherited and (they hoped) impregnated their wives. Now, the theory goes, boys can;t spell, drop out of school, get into trouble, and have lost the plot about how to be fathers. Girls have bloomed in their place. They are not Usually involved in crime or violence, and they are still much less likely to die (rout do accident or illness. Girls no longer have to be married off at great expense. Women believe their daughters have more Opportunities, more financial independence and ran control their own fertility these days. A baby's gender is determined by the father's sperm. Each man produces two types of sperm-those carrying the X or female chromosome, and those that carry the Y or male chromosome. Separating the two and inseminating with X (u Y sperm enables parents to have the child of their choice.The Genetics IVF Institution in Fairfax, Virginia deploys MicroSort, a new tech-nique that involves dyeing sperm to sort out 'male' front 'female'. The Institute claims a success rate of about 90¡'v for couples wanting girls and 70% far those wanting boys (read more about this in 'Sex Pre-selection'). European couples tend to want girls, whereas Asian and those trout the Middle Lava Leant boys. Sperm carrying the male Y chromosome are thought to swim faster but to die quicker than those carrying the female X chromosome if the sperm have to Nearly half of American medical and law students and 45% of University teachers ate women. And 40% of the worldwide labor force is now female. The Victories of the American team in the women's football World Cup: the ozone busting flight of Eileen Collins, the first woman to command a space shuttle; the news that Carl Fiorina has been appointed the first female executive officer of blue-chip Hewlett-Packard; and Sherry Lansing, the new chairwoman of the Paramount Picture Group - there are now three women running the film divi-sions of the big studies. The rise in women entrepreneurs is one of the big demographic changes in our society. There are now many examples of wait a long time for ovulation, the female version is more likely to prevail.outstanding women and there will be many more in the new millennium. --> return to menu / back ... (click) --> return to top of the page (click) |
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