After suffering huge casualties during conflict, how have different societies dealt with the resulting imbalance between the number of women and the number of men? | AskHistorians Archive Observer

After suffering huge casualties during conflict, how have different societies dealt with the resulting imbalance between the number of women and the number of men?

by TheLaramieReject

When a significant proportion of the male population was killed in combat, what happened to all the "extra" women? Prostitution? Polygamy?

Searocksandtrees

Hi, not intending to discourage anyone else from answering here, but you may be interested in a few previous posts on WWII

Several nations faced severe gender imbalance in the aftermath of WWI and WWII. How did the increased rates of unmarried women affect gender roles and culture in those countries? featuring /u/Georgy_K_Zhukov. More follow-up here Was it common for men in the USSR to have a lot of sexual partners in the first few years after WWII?
After World War II, did men from nations that sustained high casualties such as Germany and the USSR find themselves with a huge abundance of single women to pursue romantically? featuring /u/International_KB
How much percentage of the German Male population was lost by the end of world war 2? And how much did it affect the genetic demographic of Germany?