Ever since I was a little girl I was told that there are 7 women to every one man .As I grew up I realized that in most spheres of life minorities are rarely in power so I could not for the life of me figure out why most spheres of our lives are dominated by men if indeed they are the minority .I researched and researched expecting to find that there are about 1 billion men to about 6.5 billion women in the world if the above statistics are to be believed .(World population is about 7.5 billion ).
Imagine my shock when I discovered that the ratio of men to women is 1.2:1.So that means for every one woman in the world there are 1.2 men .
Now that makes sense ! Would explain a lot .

So hii maneno ya 1 man to 7 women ilitoka wapi?

https://www.unfpa.org/ge...o_by_Country_in_2013.pdf

I assume this is @magigi now "smiling and dancing". Anyway @yoursmile, your research is not comprehensive. Both genders are born on equal ratio. Some regions of the world kill their female foetus before they re born; say China & India. And these two countries happened to be most populated, so they contribute to majority of men. Otherwise, other regions of the world like Africa and US and Russia etc have most of their male die between 0-5 years (what is called mortality), then between 5-12 years due to dangerous games, then between 13-20 years due to drugs/rough games or activities or driving etc, finally between 20-35 years due insecurity, deaths in forces like KDF or police or being attacked by thugs etc.

So you realize the in adulthood their are fewer male than female.

[quote=Yoursmile]Ever since I was a little girl I was told that there are 7 women to every one man .As I grew up I realized that in most spheres of life minorities are rarely in power so I could not for the life of me figure out why most spheres of our lives are dominated by men if indeed they are the minority .I researched and researched expecting to find that there are about 1 billion men to about 6.5 billion women in the world if the above statistics are to be believed .(World population is about 7.5 billion ).
Imagine my shock when I discovered that the ratio of men to women is 1.2:1.So that means for every one woman in the world there are 1.2 men .
Now that makes sense ! Would explain a lot .

So hii maneno ya 1 man to 7 women ilitoka wapi?

https://www.unfpa.org/ge..._by_Country_in_2013.pdf[/quote]

@mysmile have you found a man or you are still searching?

@yoursmile, both your elders (7:1) and your research (must be google or wikipedia) are right. Why????

Your elders knew to well that not all males end up been men. Also, almost all females end up been women. Thats why! e.g. Binyavangaic race.

So, the research you did was for Females vs Males, and you were right. The facts that your elders introduced to you were for Women vs Men.

Tuko pamoja sasa?

The 'scarcity" of men is a real phenomena because of the following facts.
1. Women by far choose older spouses.
2. Men tend to choose younger women.

The net effect is that since global populations keep rising, a woman of say 30yrs, will have to choose from the male population of about 35yrs and above which is relatively smaller and very scarce to find a man yet a man of 30 years will choose women from say 28yrs to 18 years where there are soo many single and free women, this leaves men with an eternal expanding choice of women as he ages and presents the women with an ever diminishing choice because men older than her are already married or dying. Matatu stickers say "Men are like gold, you loose one, you stay without(landings)", it's a fact of life, it's around 5:1 ratio 1 man can pick upto 5 women, and growing.

Makes sense, never looked at it this way.
Although not 1:5, probably 1:1.3 in Africa.

...'there's too much girls.'

My two cents .Men and women since age immemorial have been seeking each other out for various reasons which keep changing .Humanity must keep up with these changes .Kitambo a woman would look for a man because she wanted the man to protect her from the lion or maybe protect her house from the thieves .In 2014 in the age of MP's being attacked in their own homes and lions being firmly behind the gates of the national park a woman would probably be looking for a man for companionship .For fiscal well being I can fend for myself so as it is right now a woman would be looking for a man for companionship or for propagation of my genes .However from the above statistics we have been informed these companions have all smoked themselves to death or gone off to the port of kismayu to fight al shaabab I am only left with the older men of whom I have to share with 4 other women .Since I and a few other women have not yet evolved to the African notion of sharing a man and even if we had most of these older men suck at companionship anyway since they are too busy looking for money (To fend for the many offspring from each of the five women ) then surely nature would direct me to the next best thing which is just to look for a man for procreation -And the young lasses who have yet to start smoking or too young to join the army are a dime a dozen .My point...maybe marriage will evolve to mean an arrangement where a woman does not necessarily have to be tied down to one man but can procreate from a choice pick of available mates .This allows both men and women to have the best of both worlds without necessarily creating complications that come about due to scarcity and the law of demand and supply

Nay, as it is.
I have done enough numbers to give a wise estimate.