A one (male) child policy in China One (male) child policy in China.

[Agent23]

So, let us say that in order to keep the more conservative parts of society happy, and because females are usually far more collectivist than males, the CCP decide to implement the one child policy with a twist.
Namely, up to 2 extra children of the first two are female.

So, do we get a Chinese population that is skewed on a gender basis in a good way?

 

[stevep]

So, let us say that in order to keep the more conservative parts of society happy, and because females are usually far more collectivist than males, the CCP decide to implement the one child policy with a twist.
Namely, up to 2 extra children of the first two are female.

So, do we get a Chinese population that is skewed on a gender basis in a good way?

Well I could see a couple of problems with this approach.
a) Given the greater 'value' most of the country gives to male rather than female children its going to cause issues further on as the female majority as it becomes will be more likely to oppose continued male domination of many areas.

b) Possibly even more importantly, if the basic idea is to reduce a rapid rise in population this doesn't really work. Not only will you have more children born - up to three if the 1st two are female. Also women are the bottleneck in population growth as a man can fertilize a large number of women and produce a lot of children whereas a women's ability to have children is largely unrelated to the number of men having sex with her. If this system developed and assuming there's not a social revolution at some point your likely to have the greater number of women ending up as either wives or concubines for the lesser number of men so the rate of increase, while it drops is likely to still be substantial. [Other factors of course come into play like the ability for people to raise children given their increasing social and fiscal costs].

This latter could be a good point for China now in that it doesn't face the same demographic collapse but would mean probably a considerably higher total population, possibly say pushing 2 billion, which could cause even greater problems.

 

[lordhen]

So, let us say that in order to keep the more conservative parts of society happy, and because females are usually far more collectivist than males, the CCP decide to implement the one child policy with a twist.
Namely, up to 2 extra children of the first two are female.

So, do we get a Chinese population that is skewed on a gender basis in a good way?

Is this going to hamper the PLA if there are more females than male in China.

 

[stevep]

Is this going to hamper the PLA if there are more females than male in China.

Do you mean in terms of less men to be conscripted into the army? Possibly to a degree although in its early days at least it was quite willing to use women in military roles plus more women to work in civilian roles - even if that greater number of women don't mean an higher population overall - could free up more of the male population for military roles.