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September 1st 2008 22:50
Single women in New Zealand are worse off than their Australian counterparts when it comes to finding "Mr Right" - and our man drought is now on a par with Mexico, claims an international demographer.
Australian author Bernard Salt said single women would soon start "geography dating," or using the internet to find "man dams", places with more available men.
Within a decade this "interactive targeting" of male hot spots could affect migration flows, he claimed.
Salt made headlines in Australia last week with a new book highlighting the man drought across the Tasman. But he said New Zealand had a bigger shortage of marriageable blokes.
"Young Kiwis in their mid- to late- 20s leave the country but it's mostly the women who come back," he said, adding the imbalance in New Zealand was similar to Mexico's.
"While Mexican men of that age are in America, Kiwi men are in Australia, London, Dubai."
He said research on expats indicated men were more likely than female counterparts to "go native" in a new country. Salt described the phenomenon as a "colonial trait," as Kiwis, especially men, sought to "test their mettle in a bigger market".
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Salt has studied the sex ratios of single people across every village, town and city in Australia, with the results published in Man Drought.
The book concludes while there is a pronounced man drought in urban areas, the gender mismatch is often the opposite in rural locations.
In New Zealand, there is an abundance of men in some rural locations, such as Southland and the Mackenzie country. Salt said he was now planning to help Kiwis willing to move house for love, by conducting detailed research into singletons.
While Government statistics showed sex ratios of residents in different age groups, Salt's research went further, concentrating on those identifying themselves "single".
Salt was adamant our man drought was worse than Australia's, agreeing with a 2005 KPMG Population Growth Report that said a 32-year-old Kiwi woman had as much chance of finding a partner the same age as an 82-year-old.
"The reason being the 82-year-old men are dead, and the 32-year-old men aren't there," said Salt.
Latest Statistics New Zealand figures show there are 96,078 more women in New Zealand than men. But experts said women just had to know where to look - they couldn't go past the rural heartland.
Waikato University's professor Richard Beford, said Census figures weren't an accurate representation of sex ratios because men in their 30s were less likely to fill in the forms thanwomen.
Professor Ian Pool, also from Waikato University, has described "man drought" as a "fairly loaded term". It depended where you were looking, he told the Waikato Times.
Australian author Bernard Salt said single women would soon start "geography dating," or using the internet to find "man dams", places with more available men.
Within a decade this "interactive targeting" of male hot spots could affect migration flows, he claimed.
Salt made headlines in Australia last week with a new book highlighting the man drought across the Tasman. But he said New Zealand had a bigger shortage of marriageable blokes.
"Young Kiwis in their mid- to late- 20s leave the country but it's mostly the women who come back," he said, adding the imbalance in New Zealand was similar to Mexico's.
"While Mexican men of that age are in America, Kiwi men are in Australia, London, Dubai."
He said research on expats indicated men were more likely than female counterparts to "go native" in a new country. Salt described the phenomenon as a "colonial trait," as Kiwis, especially men, sought to "test their mettle in a bigger market".
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Salt has studied the sex ratios of single people across every village, town and city in Australia, with the results published in Man Drought.
The book concludes while there is a pronounced man drought in urban areas, the gender mismatch is often the opposite in rural locations.
In New Zealand, there is an abundance of men in some rural locations, such as Southland and the Mackenzie country. Salt said he was now planning to help Kiwis willing to move house for love, by conducting detailed research into singletons.
While Government statistics showed sex ratios of residents in different age groups, Salt's research went further, concentrating on those identifying themselves "single".
Salt was adamant our man drought was worse than Australia's, agreeing with a 2005 KPMG Population Growth Report that said a 32-year-old Kiwi woman had as much chance of finding a partner the same age as an 82-year-old.
"The reason being the 82-year-old men are dead, and the 32-year-old men aren't there," said Salt.
Latest Statistics New Zealand figures show there are 96,078 more women in New Zealand than men. But experts said women just had to know where to look - they couldn't go past the rural heartland.
Waikato University's professor Richard Beford, said Census figures weren't an accurate representation of sex ratios because men in their 30s were less likely to fill in the forms thanwomen.
Professor Ian Pool, also from Waikato University, has described "man drought" as a "fairly loaded term". It depended where you were looking, he told the Waikato Times.
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