Increasing literacy among women in UP and Haryana has resulted in a worse Child Sex Ratio or CSR which is the number of girls compared to boys ( Times of India, April 12 ). In Guatam Budh Nagar female literacy rate is 72.78% while CSR is 852 the same as Kanpur Nagar with literacy rate of 73.88%. In Jhajjar female literacy rate increased from 59% in 2001 to 71% in 2011 while CSR dropped from 801 to 774. The average for literate women in Haryana is an abysmal 692 while in Mewat which is the most backward part of the state with female literacy of only 37.6% the CSR is 903, the highest in the state. In UP literacy has increased from 64.83% in 2001 to 74.04 in 2011 while the CSR has fallen from 916 to 899. Clearly increasing literacy is giving women the information about how best to get rid of female fetuses as well as increased income to be able to afford it. For decades we have been told that educating the girl child reduces family size, increases literacy in children, decreases child mortality and increases child nutrition and vaccine uptake. Now we see that female literacy increases abortion of female fetuses. This is not surprising. We know that the US population is 53% female yet they never elect a female president. Surveys consistently show that women find female bosses more difficult than men with less chances of promotion. The truth is women do not like women. " It seems that knowledge has played evil by strengthening the patriarchal mindset," said one Dr Neelam Singh. That is a typical female reaction to such news - blame men. The truth, especially in north India, is that it is women who drive the killing of girls. Truth needs guts.