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The result has long been a surplus of men, because of female infanticide or excess female deaths through neglect.
They argue that a surplus of men is an aggravating factor for instability rather than a necessary or sufficient condition.
This leaves urban areas with a surplus of women and rural areas with a surplus of men who are more likely to be unskilled.Ms.Ms
Infanticide, the abandonment of girl babies and favourable treatment of boys in terms of food and health has long produced a surplus of men.
The surplus of men has increased competition for brides, meaning families must buy ever more expensive housing to ensure their sons can marry – increasing the economic attractiveness of daughters.
From then on, the surplus of men turns into a deficit: by the age of 64 there are only 62 unmarried men, with or without jobs, for every 100 unmarried women.Overall 20% of Americans 25 or older, the highest share ever, have never said "I do".
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The prospect of a large surplus of single men in China alarms Valerie Hudson, a professor at Brigham Young University in the United States.
The strike and blockade have created the perfect conditions for a rampant black market – a shortage of basic goods and a surplus of young men who have been put out of work by the strike.
If there is such a tremendous surplus of enlisted men and women that "a few hundred people a year isn't of any significance," it raises the question of why so many military personnel are being repeatedly stop-lossed, forced to return to the field for tour after tour, and pushed beyond the breaking point with frequently tragic results.
Throughout the book, twinges of sadness are behind the commoditization of sex and marriage, the anxiety of parents, the plight of surplus men and the discrimination facing women.
Cincinnati editor Murat Halstead, a contemporary, attributed the fact that Foraker did not get nominated in 1888 to the surplus of ambitious Ohio men at the convention: in addition to Sherman, Foraker, and McKinley, even Harrison had been born in Ohio.
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