"Gendercide"

Johann Hari has another piece homing in, as is his wont, on subjects others fear to tackle with quite his clarity and panache:

Today, now, more than 100 million women are missing. They have vanished. In normal circumstances, women live longer than menbut China has 107 males for every 100 females in its overall population, India has 108, and Pakistan has 111. Where have these women gone? They have been killed or allowed to die. Medical treatment is often reserved for boys, while violence against women is routine. More girls are killed in this "gendercide" each decade than in all the genocides of the 20^th century. This year, another 2 million girls will "disappear."