‘Don’t commit the mistake I made’: the men fighting India’s female foeticide | Sophie Cousins

In a country with one of the world’s most skewed sex ratios, campaigners are appealing to male ‘gender champions’ to help change attitudesWhen Mukesh Sherma’s wife was pregnant with their second child, the pressure to deliver a son was almost too much.Friends and family told the couple from Chandigarh, a city in north India, to have an illegal ultrasound to find out the sex of the unborn child. Another girl, they were told, and they should abort. Continue reading...