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lumberjack_jeff

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Tue Apr 23, 2013, 05:01 PM Apr 2013

For Chinese Women, Marriage Depends On Right 'Bride Price' [View all]

Women hold up half the sky, China's Chairman Mao famously said. But in China, the one-child policy and the traditional preference for boys mean that 117 boys are born for every 100 baby girls. By one estimate, this means there could be 24 million Chinese men unable to find wives by the end of the decade.

As China's economy booms, the marriage market has become just that: a market, with new demands by women for apartments and cars.


http://www.npr.org/2013/04/23/176326713/for-chinese-women-marriage-depends-on-right-bride-price

Because this country has the opposite gender-selection bias to the one existing in China, the US population has 97 women for every 100 men.

To what extent does the opposite demographic trend explain a cultural rejection of those attitudes here?

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