Kipper-kites, aircraft engaged on convoy escort duties over the North Sea and usually giving protection to the fishing-vessels.

So though there is nothing here to indicate any widespread gynecide, there does seem to be an assumption that women will be trying to have male children.

[To] perform as mummers, who act in relays of eight, at the worship of ancestors.

[…] What cares these roarers [i.e. thunder] for the name of king?[…]