Why are you women having so many less male children?

Question

Got your attention. Yes, I know how biology works, but some cultures, like Judaism, theorized that PH Levels in the woman affects which Spermatozoon wins the race.

What's causing the decreasing male birth rate? Census Bureau figures show that Male birth rates has dropped from 66% to 49% of the total, in the last 25 years. Europe's been seeing a similar change. Statistically, the first/second child a woman has is likely to be a male. But, increasingly, these children are aborted or prevented from developing.

Could we be heading for a cultural change resulting in less living/breathing males? The majority of Blue Collar jobs are done by men. These are jobs that most women simply will not apply for, such as electricians, steel millers, high steel walkers, sewer and mine workers, etc. What will happens if this trend continues? Will a sub-culture form of individuals who are forced to do these jobs, beginning with white collar males giving up the desk jobs and soft hands for calisuses?

Of interest, CBS News did a story on the growing shortage of Blue Collar workers, driving incomes up to now where now a newly certified electrician has a beginning wage $15,000 a year higher than a college grad with a 4 year degree.

Answer 1

Why are you asking this in R&S?

There are many theories on the declining male birth rate, most popular are low levels of pollutants that have made their way into everyones bodies, but as males only have one each of an X or Y chromosome, we are more susceptible to be damaged.

In all animal species, it is more important for there to be larger female populations than males, as they are the ones that carry the progeny, and they can only have one pregnancy at a time. One male can fertilize theoretically millions of women.

This idea of declining fertility rates, or low numbers of males has been explored many many times in science fiction. I think even Star Trek had an episode with that theme.

Answer 2

My 30 year old sister is a crane operator with the union. What makes you think women cannot handle these types of jobs? If we can go through the pain of childirth, not to mention multiple births, why can't we handle blue collar work?

She also gave birth to 2 boys. We have all girl cousins and I have 2 girls and a boy. Is she then an exception to the rule that you seem to have researched? There may be a decline in male births simply because females are the ones needed to give birth in the first place. It will rise again. Do not fret...

Answer 3

I think it's probably more to do with environment and diet. Many studies have shown that "boy" sperm isn't as healthy or as fast swimmers as "girl" sperm. The pollution we're experiencing these days, the declining birth rate in general, and how horrible our nutrition is probably contribute to making the "boy" sperm less healthy and slower.

As for the jobs you listed - how many women do you know that want to be patronized daily because they're not doing a "woman's job"? I was a trainer at a factory explaining how sexism and racism in the workplace cut down on efficiency, undermine safety, and reduce trust. I got asked point blank - quite nastily - in a role-playing exercise why I played the gender card, because the character I portrayed pointed out to her manager that a certain supplier always requested a man to work with, even though women had been working at that plant for 20 years.

I certainly don't need to be working in a real environment where I'm disrespected, harrassed, and accused of playing the gender card because the environment has been overwhelmingly male for so long.

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Answer 4

I recall a study years ago that observed a surge in male birth ratios when war was hovering over a society, I wonder if the thought of war does something to a woman's PH? The fact that we are seeing an increase in female birthrates when our world is in obvious turmoil makes me wonder about the above theory.

Still, about that PH level, could it be that when we are younger (and more likely to produce and abort our boys), does the PH typically change when we are older and in so doing decrease our chances of having boys all together?

Does this mean we need to start a campaign in favor of teen pregnancy in order to save the human race? ---I'm not seriously thinking of that.

Cause and effect is fascinating to say the least.

Answer 5

Do you suppose we could see your citation for the Census Bureau figure? I am assuming that the Census Bureau figure reflects a small portion of one single county in America. Don't forget that selective abortion in favor of male babies is still practiced (when possible) in some countries.

Answer 6

You are wrong. Here's a link to prove it:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/05facts/moreboys.htm
And what do you mean by "you women"? Any educated person knows that it's the male who "chooses" the sex of the fetus? Males: 1 x and 1 y chromosome. Females: 2 x chromosomes. Male y meets female x = male. Male x meets female x = female.

Answer 7

I wouldn't worry about it. The way technology is going, Aldous Huxleys' Brave New World is right around the corner.

Along with cloning and genetic engineering we don't have a thing to worry about.

Answer 8

Great question! I bet all the girls invent robots to do all that difficult labor intensive blue collar stuff.

And our collective soft, pink hands will be tapping keys in dimly lit cubes.

Answer 9

because life is getting easier (no more back breaking work out in the fields and hunting is passe) so everything is becoming 'feminized'. women are looking for non-neanderthal genes, so they mate with 'prettier' men and thus they produce off-springs with propensity towards more 'effiminate' traits (like producing eggs discriminating for feminized sperms). have you noticed society's definition of a good-looking male is a brad p. and not an arnold s.? hehehe...

Answer 10

The vedic explanation is that the more sex one has, the more likely the child will be female, and that if one wants a male child, sex should be infrequent. I don't know how this plays out scientifically, but it sure coincides with the increase of sexual freedom in society.