Economist says wife-sharing is solution to China's gender disparity
- 8 years ago
ZHEJIANG, CHINA — China's decade-long one-child policy and the culture's preference for sons has resulted in a gender imbalance that has China worrying about a growing number of single men.
According to the New York Times, 117 boys are born for every 100 girls in China, and by 2020, there will be 30 to 40 million Chinese bachelors — but not nearly enough women to pair them with.
Xie Zuoshi, an Economics professor at Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, has come up with an plan to solve this growing bachelor problem: wife-sharing. Professor Xie suggests addressing the problem from a purely economic standpoint, that of supply-and-demand. Because there are not enough women to go around, their value will likely increase. This isn't a problem for rich men who can afford the high prices, but low-income bachelors are priced out. To solve this quandary, Xie suggests poor bachelors can share the same woman instead, adding that this practice has been known to exist in some remote and poor areas, where brothers can share the same wife and still live happily, reports the BBC.
Apart from wife-sharing, the professor also suggested that monogamy be banned, and same-sex marriage and wife-sharing be legalized to resolve the issue of far too many men.
Chinese netizens were none too happy with Xie's solution, calling his ideas ridiculous and immoral. But Xie hit back at his haters, saying, "if we don't let 30 million bachelors have women, their lives would have no hope and then they may go around, raping, killing, setting off bombs …"
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According to the New York Times, 117 boys are born for every 100 girls in China, and by 2020, there will be 30 to 40 million Chinese bachelors — but not nearly enough women to pair them with.
Xie Zuoshi, an Economics professor at Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, has come up with an plan to solve this growing bachelor problem: wife-sharing. Professor Xie suggests addressing the problem from a purely economic standpoint, that of supply-and-demand. Because there are not enough women to go around, their value will likely increase. This isn't a problem for rich men who can afford the high prices, but low-income bachelors are priced out. To solve this quandary, Xie suggests poor bachelors can share the same woman instead, adding that this practice has been known to exist in some remote and poor areas, where brothers can share the same wife and still live happily, reports the BBC.
Apart from wife-sharing, the professor also suggested that monogamy be banned, and same-sex marriage and wife-sharing be legalized to resolve the issue of far too many men.
Chinese netizens were none too happy with Xie's solution, calling his ideas ridiculous and immoral. But Xie hit back at his haters, saying, "if we don't let 30 million bachelors have women, their lives would have no hope and then they may go around, raping, killing, setting off bombs …"
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