With little or no privately-run sport, it is hard for Indian athletes to unionise, given they would be pitting themselves against the only buyer in the market.

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Highlighted by sensational titles such as "The endangered sex" (Miller, 1981) or "More than 100 million women are missing" (Sen, 1992), studies have long drawn attention to the unfavourable life chances of females versus males in various parts of East and South Asia.