my nursing lecturer was saying how her daughter almost died at birth and the doctor said ‘you’re lucky she’s a girl because girls are more resilient, even from birth’ and she just thought he was comforting her but she researched it later and there had been studies literally done into it
Not even just from birth. Female fetuses are less likely to miscarry in adverse conditions, such as famine. It makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint. If a sexual dimorphic species is to survive, it needs far more females than males. In nature, males are pretty expendable.
#natureisafeminist
“ The study of five different data sets, the largest of its kind, found that an equal number of male and female embryos are conceived (the 'primary sex ratio'), but higher female mortality (excluding abortion) in the first half of pregnancy leads to a higher percentage of males born (the 'secondary sex ratio').”
Get your facts right, the truth is literally the opposite.
http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2015-03-30-female-embryos-less-likely-survive-birth
