Texas society
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1975
Data reveals increasing woman orientation
Recent data analysis indicates Tex
as society may become increasingly
more woman-oriented in the future.
According to a 1974 report released
by Robert L. Skrabanek, a Texas
A&M professor with the Texas Real
Estate Research Center and the De
partment of Sociology and Anthro
pology, there is in Texas a very
important trend from male to female
predominance in numbers. Statistics
indicate this is a worldwide occur
rence in industrialized nations.
The changing balance between the
sexes becomes a matter of special
interest when considered with the
recent increasing interest in wom
en’s rights movements.
A simple measure used to indicate
the sex composition of a population
is the sex ratio, which is defined as
the number of males per 100 females.
Since 1890 the number of females in
Texas has been consistently growing
at a faster rate than males.
The sex ratio in Texas in 1890
was 111 males for every 100 females.
It nearly became balanced in 1950
when it reached 100.4. Ten years
later when he sex ratio was 98.1,
there were more females than males
for the first time in the state’s his
tory.
By 1970 there were only 95.9 males
per 100 females and the sex ratio
is projected to drop to 93.8 by 1980.
Skrabanek cites the lower female
mortality rate as the major reason
for the increase. For babies bom in
1974, the girls can expect to outlive
the boys by almost eight years, he
said.
In Texas, as well as the rest of the
nation, there are more males born
than females but the mortality rate
for males is higher at every age level.
By age 20 and thereafter the piargin
by which females outnumber males
increases steadily at each succeeding
age level.
According tjo Skrabanek’s report, a
large share of the state’s wealth is
controlled by women who have sur
vived their husbands. The margin
by which women outnumber men in
the voting ages (18 and over) more
than doubled in the past decade
alone. Females of voting age in Tex
as outnumbered males of voting age
by 304,000 in 1970. As this trend
continues, politicians likely will be
come more receptive to the concerns
voiced by women.
Skrabanek says the situation could
become more balanced by younger
men marrying older women, already
a trend in some countries. The hus-
band-younger-than-wife situation has
increased 1,000 per cent in recent
years in Great Britain. In Sweden it
has increased 1,200 per cent. An
other country in which the younger-
Pi
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wife tradition is reversing is West
Germany.
• Considering these data, in a dem
ocratic society such as ours, women
could conceivably become the domi
nant sex if only because the majority
rules.
House vetoes
Many College
Proposals
Most of the budget proposal sub
mitted by the Higher Education Com
mittee of the House of Representa
tives for state public senior and jun
ior colleges were rejected by the
House Appropriations Committee last
week.
Representative Bill Presnal, Ap
propriations Committee chairman,
said Thursday the proposal by the
Higher Education Committee (HEC)
was to be the basis for the two-year
Appropriations Bill now under con
sideration by the House.
“We will use the Legislative Budg
et Board’s (LBB) recommendations
as a base, with the exception of spe
cial items, major repairs, and upper
level institutions,” Presnal said.
The committee plans to complete
budgets for A&M and the University
of Texas by next week. The Educa
tion Committee had proposed to re
duce funds for UT and A&M by $30
million, Presnal said.
Coffeehouse
To Present
“Morning”
Friday the Basement Coffeehouse
is sponsoring a repeat performance
by “Morning”.
The Basement will open at 8:00
p.m. with “Morning” scheduled to
play from 10:00 until closing.
The group consisting of Jimmy
Donohue, John Donohue, Billy Don
ohue, and Jim Issacks have had a
fair history of success ranging from
a tour of Yugoslavia as back up for
a choir to performing in Austin and
San Antonio.
Their music is a little bit of every
thing. If you like country there is
their “Oh Them Texas Women” and
“Don’t You Know I Love You”. Also
included in their repertoire are easy
listening songs and flashy duets.
TODAY
SAILING CLUB meets at 7:30 p.m. in room 301
Rudder Tower.
BRYAN COUNCIL OF STUTTERERS meets at
8:30 p.m. at the Brazos Valley Rehabilitation
Center, 3300 E. 29th St., Bryan.
ARAB STUDENTS will elect officers at 7:30 p.m. in
room 401 Rudder Tower.
THURSDAY
PETROLEUM ENGINEERING CLUB presents a
slide show on Alaska from 7 to 9 p. m. in room 102
Zachry.
STUDENTS CONCERNED FOR THE HAND
ICAPPED sponsor Wheelchair Awareness Day
with a wheelchair basketball game at 7:30 p.m. in
De Ware Field House. The Houston Easy Riders
play the Dallas Raiders in the first game and the
Aggies will take on the winners.
MARINE BIOLOGY ASSOCIATION sponsors
Cmdr. Bernard Crieson speaking r - “ D
eep S '
*y Bu
“Beneath
the Sea in a Deep Submersible” in room 107 of
the new Biology Building.
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR
features Elmer Lignaul of the F rymire Engineer-
ingCompany speaking on “Engineering Needs in
the Air Conditioning Industry” at 10 a.m. in room
203 Zachry.
FRIDAY
SINGING CADETS perform in the Rudder Theatei
at 8 p.m. Tickets available in the box office for $2
• (adults), $1 (students) and 75 cents (children
under 12).
MSC ART AND CRAFT CENTER will hold an Art
and Craft Fair from 10 a. m. till 5 p.m. outside the
Library.
SATURDAY
MSC ART AND CRAFT CENTERWill hold an Art
and Craft Fair from 10 a. m. till 5 p. m. outside the
Library.
SAILING CLUB is holding a womens Regatta at
Somerville Reservoir. The race determines who
will go to the National Women’s Regatta.
A&M WHEELMEN hold a bicycle auction at 1 p. m in
the Grove.
HORSEMAN'S ASSOCIATION holds the Intercol
legiate Horse Show in the Aggie Rodeo Arena.
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