Rupert Brooke was actually in Eleventh Month! He's an interesting contrast with the more fatalistic poets of the war. I've added Hodgson's The House on the Borderland to my to-read list!
Yes, it's estimated that there were roughly fifty-five women to forty-five men in the UK after World War I (so about 1.2 women to 1 man), which is a massive population imbalance. Comparing that to China's sex ratio today, still recovering after the end of the One Child policy (approx. 114 male to 100 female, so 1.14 men to 1 woman), it's really stunning. China's sex ratio has been unbalanced after decades of gender selection, but World War I depopulated the male population of Europe so immensely in just four years. Scary.
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Date: May 5th, 2021 06:04 pm (UTC)Yes, it's estimated that there were roughly fifty-five women to forty-five men in the UK after World War I (so about 1.2 women to 1 man), which is a massive population imbalance. Comparing that to China's sex ratio today, still recovering after the end of the One Child policy (approx. 114 male to 100 female, so 1.14 men to 1 woman), it's really stunning. China's sex ratio has been unbalanced after decades of gender selection, but World War I depopulated the male population of Europe so immensely in just four years. Scary.