A fascinating study on China's current gender gap and projected issues into the near future.
There was a similar study regarding large groups of men outnumbering women in the Middle East.
-Trevor
Posted by Stray (Member # 4056) on :
This reminds me of the "Teacher's Pest" story in First Meetings, where Theresa says that women are civilization and cultures that selectively abort or kill female babies have chosen to die.
[ September 15, 2004, 02:21 PM: Message edited by: Stray ]
Posted by Risuena (Member # 2924) on :
quote:The People's Republic of China (PRC) is a source, transit and destination country for trafficking for labor and sexual exploitation. There is also internal trafficking of young women and girls sold as brides. Victims trafficked into the PRC originate from Thailand, Burma, Mongolia, Laos, North Korea, Vietnam and Russia; they are most often young women and girls trafficked for prostitution or sold as brides.
So basically China is involved in all aspects of sex trafficking. From what I can tell from a search, the majority of 'brides' are sold from urban areas in China into rural areas. There's also a lot of activity along their borders - in particular I remember an article several years ago about Korean girls near China being sold by their families.
Sex-trafficking is a huge problem, particularly throughout Asia and I don't think gets enough attention.