A decrease in male population would be beneficial for society

There aren't many debaters I've debated who would have responded the you have done. "Even with crimes being proportional, with less men there is less crime. In a world with fewer males there would still be people who make up society. For the people living in that society, life would be less dangerous. " While this is true, lets just say that there are 500 people living in one place, and out of those 500 people, only 50 are murderers. If the male population is different, and there are only 100 people living in that area, about 10 people are murderers . It still means that about 1 out of 10 people have the chance of being murdered no matter the size of the population. Because of this proportion, life would not necessarily be less dangerous. "Conditions for women would improve. Due to a dearth of male workers, girls would have a higher likelihood to be prepped for higher paying math/science/technology jobs due to a need to fill them. This would give women more economic power and enable them to be less expendable, making conditions for ill treatment less likely. " Thank you for answering my questions. Now that you mean the American society, It would probably be very detrimental to reduce the male population since one source explains that women don't take jobs in these fields because of their "need for greater flexibility and the demands of parenting and caregiving,". It also explains that women take up 50% of medical school classes. So it's not that women aren't prepped for math & science jobs, it's just because they need to take care of children. Decreasing the male population would not necessarily mean that more women would enter math & science careers, because as it shows now, America needs more people anyway to chose math & science careers. [1] "Men would have a larger pool of women to choose a one-night stand, lover, or life partner from, which would 1. ) likely lead in greater marital/sexual satisfaction due to a higher capability to "date up" their social ladder and ability to choose from a wider variety of options and 2. ) decrease the demand for prostitutes, which would further destroy the market for sex trafficking. " Well, we would have to be talking about how much of a decrease in the male population we'd be talking about. I do not agree that there would be greater marital/sexual satisfaction since there is a high divorce rate in America. 40% for first marriages, 60% for second marriages, & 70% for 3rd marriages. Whether or not this has to do with all the "desirable" women being taken up, it would be hard to be sure. Thus, we would not know if there would be a decrease in demand for prostitutes either. "I think it could be potentially beneficial to men as well. Men would be around more highly educated women (if women aren't focusing their lives around men and babies, they're likely focusing it around getting a higher education and better career. ) This would allow them to meet more women who they are attracted to on not only a sexual, but also an intellectual level (which there currently seems to be a need for- talk to an engineering or hard science major about how they'd feel about meeting an attractive female with the same major. ) If your partner stimulates you intellectually in addition to sexually, boredom is less likely, and you have a higher chance of having a more enjoyable relationship. " In a perfect society, maybe, but in the 1st source, it states that "women's career preferences and lifestyle choices tilt them toward other careers such as medicine and biology over mathematics, computer science, physics and engineering. " Don't forget that women make these choices to to be a parent & caregiver, not because they're being held back by men in society. [1] "True, you can't be sure there would be fewer planned pregnancies and more planned pregnancies. However, unless the fewer males in society start having huge amounts of unprotected sex with multiple females, the rates of accidental pregnancies would likely not reach current levels with a pretty 50/50 population split. So this, coupled with larger amounts of same-sex couples, who may or may not want to have children (they obviously can't have accidental pregnancies, gay sex doesn't work that way), would mean the population would decrease. " Even with a decrease in the male population, what would that have to do with planned or unplanned pregnancies? Sources: [1] . http://www.sciencecodex.com... [2] . http://www.divorcerate.org...