Results tagged “females”

China recently released a bunch of military recruitment posters, and amongst the various shots of men standing next to army trucks, people marching and weapons being weapon-y, this particular one caught our eye for its exuberance.

Shanghai females are fretting over the financial crisis, according to China Daily. Over 1000 women responded to a survey conducted jointly by the Shanghai Labor Union and the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, the majority of which (over 90%!) said they had been worried in the past three months because of the crisis. 53% felt insecure about their job and 27.9% believed it'd be hard to find another job if they were laid off. Women workers in the electronics (80.3%), garment (71.9%) and food (52.3%) industries worried the most. To cope with tighter wallets, most were putting off plans to have children and many were spending less on shopping and taking public transit rather than taxis.

Bucking tradition, Shanghainese parents are agreeing to have more female children and causing the boy-heavy gender imbalance in the city to decline for the first time in eight years. Boys are now only born 114.8 to every 100 girls, down from 115.2 in 2007. The natural ratio for boy to girl births: around 105:100. Okay, so it's still a ways off from reflecting nature, but any improvement at all is good news for womenfolk (and the menfolk who pursue them). Even better, it seems that the city influences migrant workers - their male:female birth ratio fell from 123.4:100 to a significantly lower 121.9:100. Source: Xinhua