英語検定ライティング準１級（第207回）

結婚「少子化を改善する策なのかという話」

半世紀前と比較すると女性の社会進出促進によって結婚は意味を持たなくなった。そのはずだったが少子化を改善するために政府は積極的に若者の婚活に力を入れると報道があったとか。
About several decades ago, the marriage life made positive contributions to an ordinary female, who couldn’t avoid depending on a profitable male in the economic viewpoint, but time has passed by.
Not a few females have made a difference in our modern society, who don’t necessarily want a life partner.
Such a change has prevented young females from leading a marriage life and doing tough childcare so far.
In order to overcome these affairs, the government would take active actions, an online article says, which couldn’t have positive influences on our society in a short while.

女性の社会進出を促進しているのは国際連合だ。世界標準からすると日本はかなり遅れている。日本政府は妻からも母からも所得税を徴収するために女性を労働市場へと送り込んでいる。
United Nations have promoted the women’s social advancements in a positive way so far, the statistics of which have announced that Japan couldn’t catch up with the current trend in the international standard viewpoint.
Numerous wives and mothers have been brought into the workforce by the government, so that they could collect taxes from female laborers as well as male workers.

結婚が少子化を改善する有効な手段ということで政府が取り組みを始めるらしい。だがマッチングアプリは大都市での危険な病気を増加させている元凶の１つだ。集団見合いでもするか。
The government has an important purpose to improve the low birthrate, where leading a marriage life could be an effective measure to increase the number of children.
But the matchmaking application has had a notorious reputation that it might make a critical sexual disease prevalent around the biggest cities, including Tokyo.
A group arranged meeting might make a vital difference.

ある大物芸人が言っていた。恋愛ドラマに出てくる役者が美男美女ばかりだと世間一般の男女は気後れするのではないかと。モテるモテないは結婚と関係ないと言われる。それは謎です。
A popular comedian says that there are only cool actors and cute actresses in the romantic drama series, which makes ordinary young citizens lose their confidence about themselves in the appearance viewpoint.
It doesn’t matter whether a person could be attractive toward a person with different gender or not, which we frequently hear, but this comment cannot work well.