puttingherinhistory: idhren:cryptobotanical:invaderxan:mapsontheweb:Son preference and Sex Ratios. N
puttingherinhistory: idhren:cryptobotanical:invaderxan:mapsontheweb:Son preference and Sex Ratios. Note that nowhere in the world prefers daughters, and only one place has no preference. Iceland is the only dark green country I can see on here, and honestly I wonder how much the naming system has to do with that. In Iceland there are no family names that are carried on through different generations. Your last name here is just your parents name + dóttir (daughter) or son. Like if your dad’s name is Jón then your last name is Jónsdóttir or Jónsson. And obviously people don’t change their name with marriage here. You are Jónsdóttir or Helgadóttir ect. for life.A looooot of families I knew in the U.S. (including my own family) whether or not they wanted to admit it favored their sons over their daughters because “he’s the one who’s going to carry on the family name, he’s the one who’s going to carry on the family legacy”. It’s to the point of where there’s recorded evidence that in natural disasters, in cultures with patrilineal family names people are more likely to prioritize their son being fed and surviving over their daughter because of wanting the child who will “carry on the family legacy” to be the one to survive. I feel like this has to be the biggest reason Iceland is dark green, there are no “family names” or “family legacies” to pass down through the boy’s last name. I’m not going to say it’s because Iceland is just a really gender equal culture or w/e because contrary to what the international press is always saying there’s still a crap ton of misogyny here. But the simple act of not having to worry about “family names” or “family legacies” can do a lot to prevent favoring sons over daughters. 2020 iteration: some improvement in Africa!https://www.womanstats.org/maps.html But still 0 countries with a daughter preference and only 1 country (maybe 2? I can’t tell what shade of green Jamaica is) with no preference. -- source link