Originally Posted by
maidentomother
netti, I do think there are many more women who would prefer all girls to all boys. I believe a majority of women feel a stronger need for a daughter vs a son. But I don't think that GD for one gender vs the other is stronger. You can never truly know how another feels and many mothers of just daughters have had a preference if not intense desire for sons from the beginning. And I definitely think boy moms are more likely to be vocal as XX pointed out.
Still, it's undeniable thst in Western culture, there is a strong preference for girls and has been for a while, basically since feminism started making strides. In other cultures boys remain preferred as they have been for centuries if not millenia. So your cultural background makes all the difference. Though I suspect that in cultures with a strong boy preference, girls would be much more wanted if women had more rights and were more empowered.