Good news, bad news?

[ambitious_wench]

It all depends on your perspective, of course.

Discuss the ramifications on our culture if there are fewer men than women. Oh, my antipodian friends? Is it true that the population of Australia is heavily weighted to one gender?

Comments

[sithen.livejournal.com]

It's Silverblue, hiding as someone else for the moment...if it is weighted, I don't think we've noticed. Which in itself could be good!

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

Nope. 1.05 male births per female birth, overall population 0.99 males per female, which I think is pretty typical.

[frou-frou.livejournal.com]

AFAIK there are areas in Australia that have a disproportionate gender balance - ie, the Pilbara (a mining region in the north west) has many more men, and the inner east suburbs of Sydney have more women, but overall there are still more male babies born that female - as is the natural situation that occurs everywhere (the qualifcation being required due to the propensity of some cultures to favour one gender over the other).

The problem is the likelihood of males to die at a greater rate at every age....eg, more male babies are still born, more die in childbirth, more die in adolescence, more die from car crashes, suicide, accidents, many diseases occur more with more frequency for those with a "Y" chromosome. Etc. Etc.

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

I could show you how to check the census to work out where all the gorgeous single gay women are... er... that is, I've heard it's possible to do that.

[ambitious-wench.livejournal.com]

*chuckle*

Love, to be honest, I am rather happy single for the time being. Maybe I should marry my camera...
E.

[mr-figgy.livejournal.com]

I'm already used to that; being in a degree program which falls under Arts, especially English, I'm used to classes where sometimes there are only two other identified males out of 30 or more people. Especially in Gender Studies, where I became the only guy after the others dropped out. I would say the effect is it really put me at ease; while clearly not every guy is like this, some of them are ultra-competitive and like to make a huge debate out of the smallest issue. I ultimately only remember one course where there was any real argument about anything, and, lo and behold, it was probably the one with the highest proportion of men. The rest were matters of us pitting theorists against each other, with little personal interest at stake, and sliding in soft points to try and build a consensus rather than shouting each other down.