I would like to comment on the article entitled "The Price of Marriage in China." This article mainly talks about the matching marriage in China. Nowadays, millions of single people in China are willing to pay this huge amount of money for the matchmaker companies. A woman from a successful love hunting company named Ms. Yang suggests that most of her clients is men who have high income and high social status. These men are not able to find wives by their own because they make the requirements too picky. Hence, this huge demanding of wives has been creating a big market in matching marriage industry.
Why do men tend to be more single than women do in China?. This is because the demographic of China has changed according to the government's restrictive one-child policy; 118 boys are born for every 100 girls. This ratio shows that at the same ages of population, there's more boys than girls. Moreover, some women decide not to marry at the early age (early or late 30s) while they still can earn money or some decide to be single for the rest of their lives because they still want to pursue their career goals and dreams and this can actually refer to the "opportunity cost" principle. There would be one example from the article where it stated
"She had just spent an hour with a rich Chinese businesswoman in her late 30s. The woman proposed spending $100,000 on a campaign to find a husband who matched her status.“I had to tell her we couldn’t take her case,” Ms. Yang said. “No wealthy Chinese man would ever marry her. They always want somebody younger, with less power.”
While the demand of marriage of women seems decrease, the supply of husband(men) is plenty.
Here's the link and graph I found useful to explain about this article.
http://thehummingplace.wordpress.com/2012/11/02/chinas-wife-drought/
Why do men tend to be more single than women do in China?. This is because the demographic of China has changed according to the government's restrictive one-child policy; 118 boys are born for every 100 girls. This ratio shows that at the same ages of population, there's more boys than girls. Moreover, some women decide not to marry at the early age (early or late 30s) while they still can earn money or some decide to be single for the rest of their lives because they still want to pursue their career goals and dreams and this can actually refer to the "opportunity cost" principle. There would be one example from the article where it stated
"She had just spent an hour with a rich Chinese businesswoman in her late 30s. The woman proposed spending $100,000 on a campaign to find a husband who matched her status.“I had to tell her we couldn’t take her case,” Ms. Yang said. “No wealthy Chinese man would ever marry her. They always want somebody younger, with less power.”
While the demand of marriage of women seems decrease, the supply of husband(men) is plenty.
Here's the link and graph I found useful to explain about this article.
http://thehummingplace.wordpress.com/2012/11/02/chinas-wife-drought/
At the officially set sex ratio, the quantity of males supplied outstrips the quantity demanded by the female population, creating a male surplus (unfortunately polygamy was outlawed in China by the Kuomintang in the early 1900s, although a woman taking on several male concubines would be interesting.)