Women, you do it to yourself

This from a new book, Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men as excerpted in a review:

Women have become, in a sense, their own worst enemies. Development, remember, was supposed to improve the lot of women -- and in many areas it does. But when it comes to reproduction, the opposite happens: women use their increased autonomy to select for sons.

So true, this idea that women are their own worst enemies.