Open AccessReported Masculinity Ratio in Pakistan: A Triumph of Anthropology and Economics over Biology (Invited Lecture)
Author(s) -
Karol J. Krótki
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
pakistan development review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.154
H-Index - 26
ISSN - 0030-9729
DOI - 10.30541/v24i3-4pp.267-303
Subject(s) - sex ratio , masculinity , demography , census , section (typography) , sociology , gender studies , population , advertising , business
The problem of the sex ratio fascinates social scientists.Some measure it through the masculinity ratio (number of men per woman),others use the feminity ratio (number of women per man). Among thelatter is the majority of social scientist on this subcontinent e.g.,Gupta [13 ; maps 24,25,26 and 27) and in several countries ofcontinental Europe [66, fn. 33, p. 3] . Corrado Gini, the celebratedcreator of various indices, popular in social Sciences, devoted to thetopic his very first book [11]. Sex and gender is one of the mostimportant and popular variables, on which a social scientist breaks uphis data into Significantly different groups.