Those are incentives?
Some people know who is a woman.
A county in central China has sparked controversy by offering a host of incentives to encourage “leftover” women to marry, including with unemployed men, local media have reported, amid rising concern about the country’s dwindling birth rate.
What are “leftover” women? Women who aren’t married. There’s no point to a woman if she’s not married – she’s just using up resources.
“At present, the phenomenon of ‘older young female cadres and workers’ remaining single in our county has become a very prominent problem, which urgently needs the care, help and support of the whole society,” the county government reportedly said in a document, referring to women older than 26.
Women who remain single are a terrible threat. Nearly all of them turn into witches.
More controversially, authorities are trying to encourage women to marry unemployed men by promising their husbands vocational and entrepreneurship training, business loans and priority for public service positions.
Don’t stop there. Encourage women to marry violent sadistic unemployed men by promising to heap these men with rewards for being married to women who get nothing. Fair.
China is grappling with a declining marriage rate and birth rate, which has prompted a flurry of policies from local governments around the country to address the problem, including establishing official matchmaking databases, organising dating activities and giving out housing allowances based on the number of children in a family.
Whatever. The reality of climate change will sink in some day, when it’s too late.
In return for doing what the nation asks of them, China will thank these women… by giving all financial benefits to the man.
Next step: bring back polygamy. Why should a man be stuck with just one wife?
This seems…off.
I mean, why unemployed? Are all the employed men married?
It is actually a little uglier than all that. China had a one-child policy for over a generation, a generation in which culture emphasize the importance of sons and devalued female children. As a result it has the world’s most skewed male-female ratio, with the worst age cohorts exactly those that are in or entering prime child bearing years now (current levels are still 111 males born for every female).
They also have a chronic problem of living standard gaps between urban and rural have been increasing for 30 years, which has produced population movement, but is now pushing areas like that noted in the piece into crisis. Rural population is in freefall, and the demographics are a mess on the basis of both sex and age.
So the rural women who chose not to marry/reproduce/etc are accentuating the self-inflicted problem. Naturally, they are the ones expected to resolve it.
I know. Because of the one child policy, a lot of female fetuses were aborted, so now there are far more men than women. Surprise surprise.
The thing is, China’s population is too large for China’s ecological system. A few decades ago, they realized that. We can deplore the actions they took, but the current obsession with having children (which seems to be happening everywhere) is absolutely frightening. Far better to get rid of the bias toward male children, then there will be women for the men to marry.
Meanwhile, the world continues to go up in flames, most of them human caused, none of them solvable while we have so many people in the world.
Should’ve been selectively aborting males (which would be a huge advantage for the remaining ones) but then that’d give women too much political power so that’s a nonstarter.
One Child was a great idea; too bad the Party couldn’t be bothered to rein in their peasants to stop killing their girl babies.