Global Capital, Empire and Argentina

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Speaking of population, while figuring out those numbers, I 
>reacquainted myself with the World Bank's numbers on the percent of 
>populations that are female. Women aren't the majority of the 
>world's population; they're 49.6% of it, because they are neglected 
>and aborted in many of the poorer countries. (In the FSU, though, 
>the men do themselves in at an early age.) In the U.S., they're 
>50.7% of the population; in high-income countries in general, 50.3%; 
>in the euro area, 51.1%. If the female share of the world's 
>population were the same as the euro area, there'd be 88 million 
>more in the world.

In 1990, Amartya Sen published an article titled "More Than 100 
Million Women Are Missing" in the _New York Review of Books_ (20 
December 1990).  Have conditions of women generally improved since 
then, relative to men's?  Or have men's conditions relative to 
women's radically deteriorated since in some nations?


>FEMALE POPULATION, % of total, 2000
>
>Antigua and Barbuda                                54.4
>Latvia                                             54.0
>St. Lucia                                          53.9
>Ukraine                                            53.5
>Russian Federation                                 53.2
>Estonia                                            53.0
>Belarus                                            53.0
>Cape Verde                                         52.9
>Lithuania                                          52.8
>Moldova                                            52.5
>Georgia                                            52.2
>St. Vincent and the Grenadines                     52.2
>Hungary                                            52.2
>Virgin Islands (U.S.)                              52.1
>Portugal                                           52.1
>Swaziland                                          51.9
>South Africa                                       51.8
>Puerto Rico                                        51.8
>Croatia                                            51.7
>Netherlands Antilles                               51.6
>Kazakhstan                                         51.6
>Uruguay                                            51.5
>Mozambique                                         51.5
>Barbados                                           51.5
>Italy                                              51.5
>Slovenia                                           51.4
>Central African Republic                           51.4
>Armenia                                            51.4
>Poland                                             51.4
>Cambodia                                           51.3
>Equatorial Guinea                                  51.3
>France                                             51.3
>Finland                                            51.3
>Bulgaria                                           51.3
>Slovak Republic                                    51.3
>St. Kitts and Nevis                                51.2
>Czech Republic                                     51.2
>Spain                                              51.1
>Burundi                                            51.1
>New Zealand                                        51.1
>Japan                                              51.1
>Congo, Rep.                                        51.1
>Macao, China                                       51.0
>Grenada                                            51.0
>Channel Islands                                    51.0
>Kyrgyz Republic                                    51.0
>Belgium                                            51.0
>Romania                                            51.0
>Germany                                            50.9
>Azerbaijan                                         50.9
>Argentina                                          50.9
>Sierra Leone                                       50.9
>Haiti                                              50.9
>Djibouti                                           50.9
>Botswana                                           50.9
>United Kingdom                                     50.9
>El Salvador                                        50.9
>Lebanon                                            50.8
>Greece                                             50.8
>Austria                                            50.8
>Lesotho                                            50.7
>United States                                      50.7

Nations in which women outnumber men at a higher ratio than they do 
in the USA seem to fall into a bewildering variety of categories, 
economically and politically (from Haiti to Belgium, Russia to 
France).  We might ask why so many men are missing in some nations.
-- 
Yoshie

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