Tag: Shortage
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Latvia’s Man Shortage Gives Rise to the Hourly Husband Industry
Statistically, the country has a full-blown “man drought,” with 15.5% more women than men, a gap more than three times the average across the European Union. Among seniors, the divide becomes even more dramatic: women over 65 outnumber men two to one TBS Report 07 December, 2025, 08:30 am Last modified: 07 December, 2025, 11:45…
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European Women Hire Husbands for Housework Amid Male Shortage
These women were forced to enact a special “man-date.” A nationwide shortage of men in Latvia has increasingly forced women to hire “husbands for an hour” to help with their household chores. According to a recent report by Eurostat, Latvia boasts 15.5% more women than men – over three times the average rate in the European…
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Addressing the Shortage of AI Training Data: A Sustainable Solution
The well of untapped data that fuelled the last wave of AI breakthroughs is running dry, leaving AI models in limbo. The ability to create new data and datasets to train models on is available to us, but obstacles remain. Companies and economies that drop the barriers for the creation of novel data will earn…