North America b. China and the Pacific Rim c. The Third World d. Japan and the South Seas 2. According to many observors in some parts of the developing world social attitudes tend to lead to a warmer reaction to baby boys rather than baby girls for all of the following reasons except one. Choose the exception.
Boys offer a greater potential for security for parents in old age.
The former USSR b. Dietary studies inthe Third World have shown that because of a lower status women a. often are not alowed to eat the same food as men. South America b. The Middle East c. Western Europe d. In recent decades many observers have noted, not only the disadvantaged position women have been accorded in the development process but that dramatic improvements in the quality of life tend to occur when women are able to assume an equitable or prominent role.