By 2020, China is expected to have 24 million more men than women, leaving the countryside filled with aging bachelors, the consequence of a gender imbalance caused by sex-selective abortions.
Published April 9, 2012
In China, marriage-age men outnumber women by the millions. Experts predict that by 2020, the number of men unable to find wives will reach the population of Texas. Many men have taken on traditionally female roles in the community like caregiving. Deborah Jian Lee and Sushma Subramanian recently visited bachelor village Gao Po, where men face the likely prospect of never finding wives. They tell Worldview what they found in China's entirely male villages.
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Journalists Sushma Subramanian and Deborah Jian Lee honored by the Newswomen's Club of New York for Pulitzer Center-supported reporting in China.
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Deborah Jian Lee is a freelance journalist and independent radio producer based in New York City. Her articles have been published by Marie Claire, The Washington Post, Reuters...
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Sushma Subramanian is a freelance health and science journalist based in New York. Her articles have appeared in New York magazine, The New York Times, Scientific American...