Ukrainian Brides May Solve China’s Gender Gap, Chinese Media Claims | Foreign Policy
▻https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/01/28/ukrainian-brides-may-solve-chinas-gender-gap-chinese-media-claims
“Their economy is depressed but beautiful women are running rampant,” the state-run Beijing News reported Jan. 22 in a story suggesting that Ukrainian women could be the solution to China’s woman shortage. The piece, illustrated with charts, bubbles, and cartoon illustrations of lonely Chinese men, was a breezy attempt to make light of China’s missing women and the severe gender imbalance caused by couples aborting female fetuses in favor of boys. So widespread is the practice that it has badly skewed the country’s sex ratio: The global average is around 105 boys born for every 100 girls; but in China last year, just over 115 boys were born for every 100 girls.
Une solution « humoristique » au #féminicide en action en Chine : un rapport de masculinité de 115 garçons pour 100 filles.