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Posted by Peter Rosa on Fri Aug 19 13:36:17 2005, in response to Re: Still more proof of the Woman Shortage, posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Thu Aug 18 23:18:02 2005. Some have attributed the drop to decreasing infant mortality rates. Since the 1940s, we've had more male births than female births. And with the drop in infant mortality, the male babies who were more likely to die off are more likely to live now. The extra male births have created a glut of males.Good point. I don't believe, however, that the ratio of male to female births is so different even today that it could be a major factor behind the Woman Shortage. Especially when you consider that males remain far more likely than females to die in adolescence or young adulthood. For some women, if your salary isn't above $125K, and your position isn't something that they can brag about, you're quite useless for them. Women have a tendency to avoid marrying downwards, and with increasing numbers of women in college and in professional fields, you're going to find that many of them will refuse to date the busdriver or mechanic. I have to disagree here. What women flock toward are not necessarily highly paid executive types, but studly Alpha Males. Men who are nerdy or unathletic are completely undesirable. Now, it's true that men who have high-paid jobs indeed often are Alphas, but there are exceptions, most notably the stereotypical IT professional. BTW, hasn't the bump in immigration rates in the States during the 1980s and 1990s produced an extra bump in terms of male/female ratios? It's usually young men who flee their countries. Quite possible. You'd have to take the ethnicity of immigrants into account, as most people prefer to date within their own ethnic groups. My LIRR/NYCT blog |
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