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How tech reshapes our relationships

Women & Gender

What happens when tech influences every aspect of our lives — even who we meet, and what our families look like?

After her third daughter was born, Faten decided to make sure that her fourth child would be a boy. She says she has a career and a family to take care of. She can't keep getting pregnant over and over again.

An Israeli woman traveled to the West Bank so she could be sure she’d have a boy

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