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Why are all those women missing? Amartya Sen coined the concept of "missing women" more than a decade ago. The term refers to the terrible deficit of women in substantial parts of Asia and North Africa, due to sex bias in relative care (Sen, 2003). The numerous debates sprung to explain this phenomenon. They range from quite narrow explanations, like sexist East vs. less sexist West, to influence of biological factors, that contribute to distorted female-male ratios. Amartya Sen suggests a different approach, why these women are missing. His analysis incorporates the combination of political, economic and cultural reasons, which refuses the simplistic explanations purely based on one or two features. This analysis mainly based on the broadened view of social choice theory. There are several superficial views that attempt to explain this deficit of women. Amartya Sen in his article More than 100 million Women are Missing (1990) gives...

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