移民海外澳大利亞出現男人荒英語美文

Migration Leaves Man Drought

澳大利亞最新的調查結果顯示，由於成千上萬的20多歲和30歲出頭的男性移民海外，澳大利亞出現了性別失衡現象，出現“男人荒”。

Thousands of men in their 20s and early 30s have left Australia, causing a gender imbalance that is having far-reaching implications for society, a study shows.

據英國《衞報》7月27日報道，澳大利亞統計局的數據表明，2004年，該國29歲至55歲的人口中，每一年齡組均呈現女多男少的現象，其中在30至40歲這一年齡段中，男性比女性要少2萬人。由此，澳大利亞長期男性多於女性的局面發生了逆轉。

澳大利亞人口統計學家和社會觀察家認為，出現“男人荒”的`現象並非由於新生男嬰過少，勞動力流動的全球化才是主要原因。年輕男性紛紛離開澳大利亞，前往包括英美在內的富裕的北半球國家謀生，而這些人往往又選擇在當地娶妻生子，最後定居下來。

專家指出：“‘男人荒’使得(澳大利亞的)消費文化出現了明顯變化，購買住房和申請貸款的女性越來越多，女性也正在發展屬於她們的單身文化。”

報道説，上個世紀70年代晚期，新西蘭也曾出現過“男人荒”的現象。當時，那裏的男人紛紛湧向澳大利亞或北半球。

(國際在線獨家資訊張詠)

Thousands of men in their 20s and early 30s have left Australia, causing a gender imbalance that is having far-reaching implications for society, a study shows.

New figures show there were 20,000 fewer men than women aged 30-something in Australia last year, according to a report by accounting firm KPMG, reversing a long period in which there were more men.

The study, which uses data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, shows that in the 12 months to 2004 there was a surplus of women in every age group between 29 and 55.

KPMG partner Bernard Salt, a demographer and social watcher, said Australia"s so-called "man drought" was not caused by fewer boys at birth. The globalisation of labour was the main reason young men in particular were leaving Australia for the bigger economies of the northern hemisphere, including Britain and the US. Those men often chose to marry and stay overseas.

"The man drought is leading to a shift in consumer culture; you have more women buying apartments, taking out finance loans; women are evolving their own single culture," Mr Salt said.

A similar trend emerged in New Zealand in the late 1970s and accelerated as men migrated to Australia or the northern hemisphere.