>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.
Just guessing, I'd say in the case of the European countries, it's a function of the welfare state; in the case of Haiti, men emigrate looking for work; in Russia, the men drink themselves to death.
Doug