Sex ratio at birth and racial differences: why do black women give birth to more females than non-black women?
The two important questions that this paper will attempt to answer are: (1) why is it that regardless of race/ethnicity or geographic location, the sex ratio data at birth show more males than females?; and (2) Why is it that regardless of geographic location compared to other racial/ethnic groups, Black women or Women of sub-Saharan Black African descent tend to give birth to more females? Or to put this question the other way around, compared to Black women, why do non-Black women give birth to more males?
Graduate Department of Public and Healthcare Administration, Seton Hall University, Jubilee Hall, Room 508, 400 South Orange Avenue, S.O. NJ 07079, USA.
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D000349:Africa; D044383:Black People / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D012744:Sex Ratio; D044465:White People / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*