Yeah I know it's true not questioning the fact... but is it women's job to solve it by marrying people they won't want to marry? Why should they do that to solve society's problems?
They're not romantic choices, the polygamy follows power distribution. The actual problem isn't that it's legal to have multiple wives, it's that resources are distributed so badly, that you end up with lots of poor men not having a stake in society. They're expected to work so that the rich and their wives can live leisurely, but it's all stick and no carrot. If the stick every breaks, you get lots of violence.
Worth noting that in countries with polygamy, it's not like women are afforded more choice than in their Western counterparts. Quite the contrary. The type of thing you see is a poor farmer marrying off his very young daughter as the 3rd wife of someone wealthy to provide for her. So in practice it's much closer to forced marriages, not unfettered choice for women.
