移民海外澳大利亚出现男人荒英语美文

　　Migration Leaves Man Drought

移民海外澳大利亚出现男人荒英语美文

　　澳大利亚最新的调查结果显示，由于成千上万的20多岁和30岁出头的男性移民海外，澳大利亚出现了性别失衡现象，出现“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.

　　据英国《卫报》7月27日报道，澳大利亚统计局的数据表明，2004年，该国29岁至55岁的人口中，每一年龄组均呈现女多男少的现象，其中在30至40岁这一年龄段中，男性比女性要少2万人。由此，澳大利亚长期男性多于女性的局面发生了逆转。

　　澳大利亚人口统计学家和社会观察家认为，出现“男人荒”的'现象并非由于新生男婴过少，劳动力流动的全球化才是主要原因。年轻男性纷纷离开澳大利亚，前往包括英美在内的富裕的北半球国家谋生，而这些人往往又选择在当地娶妻生子，最后定居下来。

　　专家指出：“‘男人荒’使得(澳大利亚的)消费文化出现了明显变化，购买住房和申请贷款的女性越来越多，女性也正在发展属于她们的单身文化。”

　　报道说，上个世纪70年代晚期，新西兰也曾出现过“男人荒”的现象。当时，那里的男人纷纷涌向澳大利亚或北半球。

　　(国际在线独家资讯张咏)

　　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.

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