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Women can only be "in short supply" as long as the Earth is using Luna as a prison colony and mostly shipping up males; as soon as native Lunarians dominate, it

• mcguire 8y ago
  That's one of the issues with it; history has seen several instances of high-proportion male societies, and "women in charge" has never been the stable result.
  • BurningFrog 8y ago
    OP said "families are dominated by women", not "women in charge".
  • sfRattan 8y ago
    My recollection from the book was that, as the sibling comment states, the moon was previously 2:1 men-to-women. It was no longer so by the time of the novel's start, but social norms established during that tumultuous backstory had persisted: mostly the men enforcing good behavior on each other because it was so ridiculously easy to die on the moon and the men were essentially interchangeable to the women and not scarce.
• m0zg 8y ago
  And that's exactly what the Moon was used as in the book, so men outnumbered women 2:1. Another prediction in the book is it's very easy to do heavy bombardment of the Earth from there, using the Earth's gravity well, rail guns on the Moon, and lunar rocks. Next time I saw the Moon mentioned in a military context was in George Friedman's "The Next 100 Years", where he tries to predict what will happen throughout the rest of this century. The books gets very sci-fi towards the end, but it's a fun read. I wonder if Friedman has read Heinlein.