[lbo-talk] where are the women?

[Jerry Monaco]

On 3/20/07, Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/20/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> > I was just looking at the sex ratios for the populations of various
> > countries, and discovered an amazing thing - the extraordinarily low
> > percentage of women in certain Arab countries. Where did all the
> > women go?
> >
> > I understand the predominance of the fSU countries at the other end,
> > though - the men drank themselves to death.
> >
> >
> > COUNTRIES RANKED BY SHARE OF FEMALES IN POPULATION
> > 2005 data, World Bank
> >
> > lowest
> > ------
> > United Arab Emirates         31.9%
> > Qatar                        32.7
> > Kuwait                       40.0
> > Bahrain                      43.0
> > Oman                         43.8
> > Saudi Arabia                 46.0
>
> These are all Gulf states, artificial states, where non-citizens
> outnumber citizens in the labor force.  Check the sex ratios of
> non-citizen workers.  If men outnumber women greatly among the
> non-citizen workers in the Gulf states, that brings down the shares of
> females in the Gulf state populations a lot.  The question in this
> case, unlike India and China for instance, is not what happened to the
> missing women but why the Gulf states need so many more foreign male
> workers than foreign female workers in the labor force (which is easy
> to guess -- oil and construction are predominantly men's jobs).
>
> So, don't start a match-making service hitching Russian women to Gulf
> Arab men -- you'll be disappointed.  :->
> --
> Yoshie
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Yoshie,

So the other relevant sex ratio statistics would be of _births_ and survival
rates beyond five years within these countries and also by class within the
countries.

By the way Hrdy in her book "Mother Nature" analyzes sex ratios of birth and
survival, and how it relates to class and caste (artificial ecological
niches if you will) in various countries.  See chapter 13 "Daughters or
Sons: It all depends" which points out that in many non-industrial countries
among the poor and landless daughters have a higher survival rate than
sons.

Jerry
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