The three-plus decades since the inception of the ‘one child’ policy have resulted in a huge female shortage in China. The country is now seriously unbalanced, with 18 million more boys than girls. By 2020, there will be some 30 million surplus men in China, a condition some demographers call in all seriousness a male bulge.
The laws of supply and demand, which armchair social scientists seem to apply to this situation with abandon, China’s women should have the upper hand.
Former journalist and sociologist Leta Hong Fincher disagrees.
“There’s very little evidence that urban women have turned their scarcity into economic gain,” she writes in
Women Face Impossible Choice: Second Shift or Leave Work
The old central office building for the Virginia Employment Commission. While thousands in the state are receiving unemployment insurance through the VEC, thousands more don t qualify after leaving the labor force. (Photo: Crixell Matthews/VPM News)
In October, Virginia’s labor force participation rate fell to 63.5%, its lowest level since at least 1976, the first year the Bureau of Labor Statistics published state-level data.
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March, over 175,000 Virginians have left the labor force, around 3% of the state’s work-eligible population. But, while the pandemic certainly accelerated the process, it’s a continuation of a trend the state, and the whole country, has been experiencing throughout the 21st century.
NOW’s helping hand aids 40 jobless households
Article by December 24, 2020
The National Organization of Women (NOW) has presented almost 40 families affected by the COVID-19 pandemic with food for Christmas, President Marsha Hinds has told
Barbados TODAY.
Although the organization’s funds have been depleted since September as it assisted women and children during the lockdown period, NOW’s management had to make a quiet appeal for food, toys, and vouchers, to make Christmas possible for these same families.
Hinds-Layne explained that while NOW does not usually embark on Christmas appeals, this is the time of the year where there is an escalation in domestic and intimate partner violence.
by Bajan Reporter / December 17th, 2020
A new ally has joined Soroptimist International of Barbados’ (
SIB) initiative to put food on the tables of women and families who have been struggling due to the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic.
The women’s service club today announced a philanthropic partnership with digital advertising company Screen Display Network, which will carry promotion for the service club’s recently launched Covid-19 food bank.
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This is an opportunity to get our campaign in front of so many more people and thus be able to help so many more people,” said club President,
Krystle Maynard as she welcomed the partnership.