Quoted: Link WHAT'S CAUSING MUSLIM NATIONS TO HAVE SERIOUS GENDER-IMBALANCES IN THEIR POPULATIONS? The Economist publishes a fascinating little booklet with all sorts of fascinating facts and figures about a variety of things. It's titled, "POCKET WORLD IN FIGURES", 2005 Edition; Profile Books; London; 2005. I just got one. I found an interesting chart on page 24 - a page titled, "Men and Women." The chart I found most interesting is one of three on the page; it's called, "Most male populations." It's sub-titled, "Number of males per 100 females." Of the thirty (30) nations on the list (being the thirty with the greatest IMBALANCE, with far more men than women - and far more than might be expected if there were no intervention - 20 of them are predominantly Muslim (or with a very large Muslim segment of the population). The most imbalanced is (at #1) the UAE [189 males per 100 females], followed by Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia [117 males /100 females], and then non-Muslim Guam, followed by #8 Jordan, followed by non-Arab - but Muslim Brunei, Sri Lanka, Libya, and then non-Muslim Polynesian & Papua, followed by Muslim (but non-Arab) Afghanistan, followed by India (which has a very large Muslim population), and then China [where we KNOW they practice female infanticide - 106 males/100 females], then Muslim Bangladesh, non-Muslim New Caledonia, then Muslim Pakistan, Muslim and European Albania, non-Muslim Nepal, then Cote d'Ivoire (which has a significant Muslim population), and then Taiwan and Costa Rica and Fiji, then Muslim Gaza and Muslim West Bank, Muslim Iran, Muslim Malaysia, and Muslim Yemen [103 males/100 females] . Twenty of the thirty nations with severe imbalances -- which cannot be explained by natural forces, but which are most likley the result of direct, human intervention -- are Muslim. Another indication that there is a connection between this imbalance and Islam is the fact that (according to another chart on the same page in the same booklet) of thirty (30) nations with imbalances which FAVOR women, only ONE (1) is predominantly Muslim or has a significant Muslim minority. bashing aside, could a shortage of women in Muslim cultures be driving the young'uns to kb themselves (since they might have less of a chance at finding a mate on this Earth) or is it  a culture gone mad, where women are dispatched with seemingly alarming regularity?

Why some young muslims blow themselves up, and it ain't cause they lack womenz
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saudi/analyses/wahhabism.html

Quoted: What's up with a few polynesian countries on that list - Guam, Fiji?   Maybe just small populations. My guess would also be female infanticide, as well as laws that look the other way if fathers or husbands feel like "honor killing" their daugthers or wives.

I would guess death of women in child birth. "honor killing" would have to involve some pretty drastic numbers to alter the ratio of men to women, plus that would not explain the non muslims in Guam, fiji and India. However there are far less developed countries that I would think would have a larger disproportionate number of men to women-were they included in these studies-do they even keep reliable census numbers? I didn't have a lot of luck with the links from that blog.

I don't mean to discount the treatment of women in those cultures. Watch "Osama" the movie to get a depressing look at the treatment of women under the Taliban. I know it's a fictionalized tale, but that men in any culture would treat women in that manner