Hardie Grant Books – Melbourne 25 August 2008
A new study reveals that there is an increasing difference between the supply of men and women in one of the key reproductive age groups in Australia.
The study’s author, demographer Bernard Salt, says that in 1976 Australia had 54,000 more men than women aged in their thirties, but by 2006 the excess of young men had turned into a deficit of 9,000.
“Baby Boomer women pairing up in the 1970s had it easy. There were more men than women due to a post-war immigration program that favoured men,” says Mr Salt.
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