[lbo-talk] where are the women?

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 3/20/07, Jerry Monaco <monacojerry at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

The Gulf states are not poor, and Gulf Arab females do better than
Gulf Arab males in this department.

Deaths per 1000 live births

<http://globalis.gvu.unu.edu/country.cfm?country=AE>
UAE
Under five mortality, male 17.0
Under five mortality, female 14.0

<http://globalis.gvu.unu.edu/country.cfm?country=QA>
Qatar
Under five mortality, male  17.0
Under five mortality, female 13.0

<http://globalis.gvu.unu.edu/country.cfm?country=KW>
Under five mortality, male  13.0
Under five mortality, female  13.0

<http://globalis.gvu.unu.edu/country.cfm?country=BH>
Under five mortality, male  20.0
Under five mortality, female  16.0

<http://globalis.gvu.unu.edu/country.cfm?country=OM>
Under five mortality, male  26.0
Under five mortality, female  20.0 	

<http://globalis.gvu.unu.edu/country.cfm?Country=SA>
Saudi Arabia
Under five mortality, male  26.0
Under five mortality, female  23.0
-- 
Yoshie