This tradition of favoring males occasionally led to female infanticide in the past in China, particularly in times of famine.

In many countries, there is a gender income gap which favors males in the labor market.

But they say additional, more subjective psychological and character testing still favors white males.

For every time there is such a finding favoring males, there will be another favoring females.

Sexual selection of mates by lionesses favors males with the densest, darkest mane.

Even in modern developed societies, however, gender messages conveyed by family, mass media, and other institutions largely favor males having a dominant status.

She favored few males.

For example, the S.A.T. has long been accused of favoring white, upper-income males.