Gender Gap "Males" vs lesser "Females"..? 19 1 24 (13) 25 2 19
When you look at the distribution of male supremacy in the world it
doesn't take many minutes to discover that women have a better deal in mostly
northern countries like Iceland (0,878), Norway (0,83), Finland
((0,823), and Sweden (0,816), where perhaps women are more demanding of their men, but also in Rwanda (0,822), than
most of the countries of the developed world, though still falling some way
short of men (1,00), with countries like Yemen (0,516), Pakistan 0,546), Syria
(0,568) and Chad (0,575) at the other end of the spectrum, and, interestingly,
Bangladesh (0,719), USA (0,718), Kazakhstan = Mongolia( 0,713) somewhere in
the middle, again in a descending order, midway between these extremes: this
data published in November 2017 by the World Economic Forum. The criteria the
WEF uses to compile their list of 150 countries includes wage equality, number
of women in parliament and life expectancy of both sexes, with 0,0 being the
lowest figure possible and 1,0 the highest. Above all I take the view that in no way can the woman in society take any blame for such inequality but which has spurned the Me-Too movement in the last year for example to give us hope that the situation world-wide is changing at a greater rate than earlier?
Straight off I have to say when I moved from UK (gender gap 0,77)
naturally I too was somewhat prejudiced against women, not so much for their
having equal pay to do a similar job like teaching school for example, but as a
Manager in Industry for 13 years already I took exception to a pregnant woman having the
right to leave her job and have it kept open for a year, until I understood that without
such a law here women were not so interested in bearing children, when slowly I
came round to sharing similar views for they made total sense… Now when I hear
about the secrecy surrounding wage levels in UK, still to a large extent being disparate, and the fact the BBC can pay a woman only 1/6th the
pay of a man for presenting a programme on TV, I am appalled. People are
getting to know all this in UK because they have now passed a "Freedom of
Information Law" but hitherto wage levels there were shrouded in
secrecy whilst here for example newspapers once a year publish everyone's
income breakdown...
And when I attended a lecture by a Social Democrat MP a few years ago
and she related how she had been sitting next to a company CEO discussing
gender equality in the Board Room, and asked him why is it that when certain
companies introduced women into their board rooms and their company's
productivity then began to increase, why the company didn’t increase their pay
to commensurate levels with the males, when she claimed the CEO invited her to
discuss the matter further once this dinner to entertain the foreign dignitary
was over? I personally had to agree, women here too still have some way to go.
As an inventor in my job I have to say again how when visiting the
Museum of Technology in Stockholm with my two grandsons, upon visiting the
women’s section to do with patenting, I was amazed to see this invention of a
rubber shoe for a horse when I got to thinking: Yeah only a woman could have so
much gumption to think of that one, before also reading that even Vladimir
Putin now has his horse shod with rubber shoes of this lady’s invention: more comfortable for the horse and more comfortable for the rider's ears! Hahaha.
Filling in a few more missing countries from the list of 150 are the
following:
Ireland 0,794; New Zealand 0,790; France = Germany
0,778; Canada 0,769; Bolivia 0,758, S. Africa 0,756; Australia 0,731; Israel
0,721; Russian Federation = India 0,696; Mexico 0,692; China 0,674; Japan
0,657; S. Korea 0,65 gives a pretty good overall world view, and moreover helps
me to understand the muddled thinking of Mr Trump being hell-bent on building a
wall between the US and Mexico on the one hand, and of the Brits wishing to
pull out of the EU on the other..!? For Japan the relatively poor showing, I
blame squarely on the men of that country and have to think that it perhaps why Japanese
ladies are not so interested as they used to be to give up their careers, set
up home and be nurse-maid not only to children but also to the
"salaryman"..? Have a good day everyone thinking male supremacy especially
of the all-white Anglo-Saxon variety is long past its sell-by date,
hahaha!!!
PS
More indices for countries which in the recent past have been represented
among my BlogSpot visitors, if they have not got a mention otherwise: Canada
0,769; Singapore 0,702; Turkey 0,625; United Arab Emirates 0,649; Zimbabwe
0,717; Thailand 0,694; Poland 0,728, Armenia 0,677; Ukraine 0,706; Spain 0,746;
Netherlands 0,737...a very telling list wouldn't you agree which has the effect of explaining much that goes on between the lines we read in the world's press.
Why are females subservient to males in some cultures..? 19 1 24 (13)
Last updated 23rd June 2023 with Iceland, Norway and Finland retaining top positions, increased to 0.912, 0.879 and 0.863. With Sweden, t UK and t USA now 0.815, 0.792 and 0.748. Ireland, Germany and France now 0,795, 0.815 and 0,756 (ever widening differences for last two?). S.Korea, Japan and Mexico now polled at 0.68, 0.647 and 0.765. And last 3 countries I am listing China up at 0.678, India down to 0.643, and Israel down to 0.701. Always an interesting exercise to undertake...
Why are females subservient to males in some cultures..? 19 1 24 (13)
Last updated 23rd June 2023 with Iceland, Norway and Finland retaining top positions, increased to 0.912, 0.879 and 0.863. With Sweden, t UK and t USA now 0.815, 0.792 and 0.748. Ireland, Germany and France now 0,795, 0.815 and 0,756 (ever widening differences for last two?). S.Korea, Japan and Mexico now polled at 0.68, 0.647 and 0.765. And last 3 countries I am listing China up at 0.678, India down to 0.643, and Israel down to 0.701. Always an interesting exercise to undertake...
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