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It could take 15 years for China 's gender imbalance to sort itself out , the country 's top family planner said yesterday , admitting that three decades of strict population policies had contributed to the problem.In 2005 118 boys were born for every 100 girls born in China , as wider use of ultrasound scans and the easy availability of abortions exacerbated the preference for boys . When it was bedtime , bedrolls spread out on cots pushed together ( their own doing ) and the 10 or 12 girls of various hues bouncing around in baby doll pajamas to settle down after the lights were off . I was one of the 154 girls chosen to attend the Wider Opportunity called " The City Now ! Miss Maria Mitchell , of Vassar , one of our distinguished astronomers , has recently graduated a class of seventeen girls , after a three-years course , having carried them as far as she could , and giving them credit for abstruse inquiries and profound mathematical knowledge . In grad school there are about 4 girls out of 33 in my year , and that ’ s actually very good compared to the rest of the country . Chinese children : there are now 118 boys for every 100 girls . In the summer of 1989 , 12 girls and two adults from all across the U.S. ( every region was represented ) traveled to West Germany , just months before the fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification of Germany , to attend a huge ( estimates of participants were in the thousands ) international camporee centered around the visual and performing arts .