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List out the impacts on society if the sex ratio is too low or too high.

Sex ratio can be defined as a number of females per 1000 number of males.


i. High or Low sex ratio signifies the discrimination in the society regarding the gender of a person.


ii. Due to this, there will be an imbalance between the population of male and female which can lead to many problems like dominance and violence against a particular gender. If males will be more in number than female, they will dominant females and vice versa.


iii. It will prevail in high inequality in the society and a particular gender will suffer.


iv. Distribution of wealth between males and females will get imbalanced.


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