Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!nebulus!contact!ben
From: ben@contact.uucp (Ben Eng)
Newsgroups: ont.singles
Subject: Re: The Woman Shortage ... let's make it official
Keywords: Weird USian stats
Message-ID: <1990Feb4.215049.6345@contact.uucp>
Date: 4 Feb 90 21:50:49 GMT
References: <25BF359A.26362@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <1990Jan26.101740.16027@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <1990Jan29.134118.13775@lsuc.on.ca> <1990Jan30.154027.6118@contact.uucp> <1990Feb2.175837.14996@watcsc.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: ben@contact.UUCP (Ben Eng)
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In article <1990Feb2.175837.14996@watcsc.waterloo.edu> kivi@watcsc.UUCP (J. Kivi Shapiro) writes:
>In article <1990Jan30.154027.6118@contact.uucp> djcl@contact.UUCP (Woody Tobias Sr) writes:
>>
>>i have been reading figures to the effect that there are 122 unmarried females
>>per 100 unmarried males in the 20s age range in the US Bureau of Census. In
>>fact, other US Census stats i've seen indicate that this woman shortage
>                                                                ^^^^^^^^
>Why doesn't this seem right somehow?

I've met some women over 6 feet tall and some women who are only 5'2",
so all this hype about woman shortages appears to be overly biased.

But then I am in engineering where the Male:Female ratio is something
like 100:5.  In my class, we have around 100 people and we only have 6
girls.  :-(

Ben
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