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Re:Why Women Choose Differently at Work by Tade0 on Saturday March 03, 2018 @09:44PM (#16512981)
> At least to me as a traveler it seems that many men in those countries have a wide choice of attractive girls, regardless of how well they are off.

There are a few factors at play here.

At least in Poland women more often than men choose to leave rural areas in favor of cities and that results in city-dwelling populations dominated by women(often single) and rural population dominated by men(also single).

Also there's a social stigma connected to being a woman over 30 who is still single/childless.

Lastly in post-soviet countries men commit suicide significantly more often than women - often early in life - which further skewes the gender ratio.

Men here are still regarded as providers and status, or at least status signaling, matters - one obvious example is how much people(men) spend on cars.

Re:Why Women Choose Differently at Work by dozzie on Sunday March 04, 2018 @08:28AM (#16514640)
> [...] that results in city-dwelling populations dominated by women(often single) and rural population dominated by men(also single).

I'd love to live in a place where this were true. Which cities exactly have such thing going on?

> Also there's a social stigma connected to being a woman over 30 who is still single/childless.

Or is there?

Also, either there is stigma for being single woman or there are vast numbers of single women. Both at the same time cannot be true in even somewhat stable system, and it's hard to argue that Polish cities are in total chaos.

> Lastly in post-soviet countries men commit suicide significantly more often than women - often early in life - which further skewes the gender ratio.

Yes, because suicide is a primary or at least a major reason that men die (or die young).

Re:Why Women Choose Differently at Work by Tade0 on Sunday March 04, 2018 @10:21AM (#16514955)
You're ignoring a lot of subtelties here.

> I'd love to live in a place where this were true. Which cities exactly have such thing going on?

Warsaw is a great example, but ironically these womens' standards are pretty high - all in all they didn't leave their 30k-something-souls towns for the Big City to marry a man who doesn't enjoy a decent social status himself.

> Or is there? Also, either there is stigma for being single woman or there are vast numbers of single women. Both at the same time cannot be true in even somewhat stable system, and it's hard to argue that Polish cities are in total chaos.

Anecdata: my sister was born in 86' and is currently single and childless, just like a few of her friends. On one hand they're pressured to do something about this, on the other there aren't many eligible bachelors available because well, they're taken. This song[0] illustrates this point beautifully.

Hell, the problem is so visible right now that a TV show dedicated to making couples out of (most of the time)well-off farmers and city-dwelling women[1] was created.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-gfxjAaZg0

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/FremantleMediaPoland