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sid
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
Location: Berkshire, England
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 Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 5:29 pm Post subject: South Korea ranks 54/58 for gender equality |
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From a new Gender Gap study by the World Economic Forum.
BBC News story
WEF report |
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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top ten read like a who's who of the politically correct nations
1: Sweden
2: Norway
3: Iceland
4: Denmark
5: Finland
6: New Zealand
7: Canada
8: United Kingdom
9: Germany
10: Australia |
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Cthulhu
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 6:09 pm Post subject: |
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crazylemongirl wrote:
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top ten read like a who's who of the politically correct nations
1: Sweden
2: Norway
3: Iceland
4: Denmark
5: Finland
6: New Zealand
7: Canada
8: United Kingdom
9: Germany
10: Australia |
Except for most people under 25 in #8, those over 50 in #7 and everyone in #10.  |
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joe_doufu
Joined: 09 May 2005
Location: Elsewhere
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| Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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| (The US) "ranks poorly on the specific dimensions of economic opportunity and health and well-being, compromised by meagre maternity leave, the lack of maternity leave benefits and limited government-provided childcare," the WEF said. |
So basically, it's not a survey about gender equality, but about social programs spending. |
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Manner of Speaking
Joined: 09 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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| South Korea ranks 54/58 for gender equality |
Who cares.  |
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Moldy Rutabaga
Joined: 01 Jul 2003
Location: Ansan, Korea
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| Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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Latin America has its share of poor performers, with Venezuela, Brazil and Mexico all in the worst 10.
"The problem here appears to be not in the lack of opportunity once women have entered the workforce, but rather in giving them access to the educational training and basic rights, such as healthcare and political empowerment, that will enable them to join the workforce," the WEF said. |
I lived in Mexico. Most men lack the same opportunities and access. I wonder about the objectivity of this study.
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Yaya
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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| I hear it's a class issue in Latin America rather than a gender one. |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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Many women use marriage as a meal-ticket, a way to escape their feminist won freedom to pursue a career. (Women Vs. Women: The Uncivil Business War, Tara Roth Madden, p 137)
What Every Man Should Know About Feminist Issues
Commitment
by Rod Van Mechelen
http://www.backlash.com/book/commit.html
Women aspire to be housewives without any of the housework
Mothers are rejecting equality in the workplace and prefer the idea of becoming full-time housewives - but not ones who actually do housework... they want to play the "role" of housewife with a little help from, for instance, a nanny, and someone who does the ironing.
By Sarah Womack, Social Affairs Correspondent (November 5, 2004)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/05/11/nwife11.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/05/11/ixhome.html
Stop Footing The Bill On Dates
By Matthew Fitzgerald, Askmen.com
http://www.askmen.com/dating/curtsmith_100/101_dating_advice.html
A Rant about Women
This story is taken from Answer Me! zine, issue #2, 1992 and written by DEBBIE GOAD.
http://www.totse.com/en/ego/literary_genius/femrant.html |
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 10:28 pm Post subject: |
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interesting, so RR also has an axe to grind about lazy women.
*makes note in psychological profile* |
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darrin312
Joined: 26 Jan 2003
Location: Kyopoville
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| Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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interesting, so RR also has an axe to grind about lazy women.
*makes note in psychological profile* |
And your obsession with him is noted in your psychological profile. Its interesting how you quip about him here whenever you can- sort of like the way you were torn a new one daily on the herald forum a year or so back.
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 12:15 am Post subject: |
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| Swiss James wrote: |
interesting, so RR also has an axe to grind about lazy women.
*makes note in psychological profile* |
And your obsession with him is noted in your psychological profile. Its interesting how you quip about him here whenever you can- sort of like the way you were torn a new one daily on the herald forum a year or so back.
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I haven't mentioned anything about him for a good month or so- he used to get under my skin a lot more than he does now.
"torn a new one daily on the herald forum"? I can't remember what I used to argue about on there, but yeah it must have been about a year ago at least. Sheesh that thing had horrible, twisted, angry people on it, is it still going? |
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khyber
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Compunction Junction
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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 1:22 am Post subject: |
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| Many women use marriage as a meal-ticket, a way to escape their feminist won freedom to pursue a career. |
well, they always had the freedom to pursue a career. Feminism was about giving women an EQUAL chance to pursue a career.
and on the web page itself it's followed by:
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| Thus, a man who marries a woman with a career may suddenly find himself supporting a housewife |
and what the hell is wrong with that? Are you scared that her job may be in jeopardy when she's pmsing? or that she won't be willing to give it up to the boss and therefore, lose her job?
the rest of this particular link is a sham
re: the telegraph article.
Not ONCE did it give any sort of number/percentage to indicate that the title was correct. In fact, they hardly even gave a correlating set of data between women staying at home and women wanting to have nannies.
This links smells of bunkness
i'm not even sure about reading this "stop foooting the bill on dates" as the second sentence in the article reads:
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| Women in the 2000's are now earning as much as -- or more than -- their male counterparts |
when doing a 4 second google: the askman's articles fact:
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the wage gap simply does not exist for women with bachelor's degrees, even in such "male-dominated" fields as architecture and engineering.
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is put into context when checking the us census bureaus stat:
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| Bachelor's degree or higher, pct of persons age 25+, 24.4%: |
wow...so, assuming half of those are women (which is obviously humourous) they are basing 100% of women's income on a mesely 12.2%.
Come now....
i like this link on your last page:
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| Favorite pot-head movie |
as i skimmed through the actual article, it made me wonder what kinda women this chick knew.
really, what kind... |
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Homer
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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 2:27 am Post subject: |
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| Useless...but funny. |
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