Gender Equality Ranking 2017

[Son of Jamin]

The Global Gender Gap Report 2017

The ranking consists of 144 countries:

The Best:

1. Iceland
2. Norway
3. Finland
4. Rwanda
5. Sweden
6. Nicaragua
7. Slovenia
8. Ireland
9. New Zealand
10. Philippines
11. France
12. Germany
13. Namibia
14. Denmark
15. UK

49. United States

The Worst:

130. Qatar
131. Turkey
132. Mauritania
133. Côte d'Ivoire
134. Egypt
135. Jordan
136. Morocco
137. Lebanon
138. Saudi Arabia
139. Mali
140.Iran
141. Chad
142. Syria
143. Pakistan
144. Yemen

The ranking is based on the following criteria:

* Economic participation and opportunity
* Educational attainment
* Health and survival
* Political empowerment

Some surprises like that Rwanda ranks so high and not so surprisingly that Muslim countries are generally in the bottom.
https://www.weforum.org/reports/the-global-gender-gap-report-2017

 

[Son of Jamin]

Speaking of opportunity, there are more women driving tanks in Israel than women driving cars in Saudi Arabia.

 

[WhitebeltXL]

UK and Canada are only 15th and 16th? Surprising since they both have female Prime Ministers.

 

[tonni]

"Philippines"

Don't they have a massive sex trafficking problem? A bit sceptical about that one.

Does the study even take into account sex trafficking, which is a huge hazard to women's health and safety?

 

[Trotsky]

Saudi Arabia over Iran



I can only guess that the ability of Saudis in general to pursue Western education through educational exchange with the US is what inflates their position.

Also very skeptical of Egypt over Jordan and Lebanon. I'm guessing it's the same deal re US exchange. Nicaragua, as always, is a beast.

 

[Bald1]

UK and Canada are only 15th and 16th? Surprising since they both have female Prime Ministers.

Speaking of opportunity, there are more women driving tanks in Israel than women driving cars in Saudi Arabia.

Lol. Nice work.

 

[TheMadThinker]

Some of those African countries are a surprise. I guess raping women like it is a sport does not count as gender inequality?

 

[Son of Jamin]

"Philippines"

Don't they have a massive sex trafficking problem? A bit sceptical about that one.

Does the study even take into account sex trafficking, which is a huge hazard to women's health and safety?

The reason why the Philippines rank that high is because:

* Equal literacy rate
* Wage equality
* Time with female head of state
* High level of professional and technical women working
* Equal distribution between male/women legislators, senior officials and managers.

To name a few

 

[Prutfis]

Namibia and Rwanda? Surprising entries.

Speaking of opportunity, there are more women driving tanks in Israel than women driving cars in Saudi Arabia.

But SA are making great progress on womens rights according to Ivanka (don´t mind the remarks coming after SA gave 100 million to her pet charity)

 

[Son of Jamin]

Namibia and Rwanda? Surprising entries.



But SA are making great progress on womens rights according to Ivanka (don´t mind the remarks coming after SA gave 100 million to her pet charity)

Some of the reasons why Namibia is ranked so high:

* Pretty even labour force participation
* Equal incomes
* Equal literacy rates
* More professional and technical women working than men
* More women attaining education than men

 

[Prutfis]

Some of the reasons why Namibia is ranked so high:

* Pretty even labour force participation
* Equal incomes
* Equal literacy rates
* More professional and technical women working than men
* More women attaining education than men

Seems right. Most people I know who have travelled in that part of Africa say that the males are lazy as fuck and if you want anything done, talk to the women.
In a lot of places the males will be paid daily because if you pay them monthly they just don´t show up for work again until they are out of money

 

[Son of Jamin]

Seems right. Most people I know who have travelled in that part of Africa say that the males are lazy as fuck and if you want anything done, talk to the women.
In a lot of places the males will be paid daily because if you pay them monthly they just don´t show up for work again until they are out of money

Indeed and that is why there is more talk about aiming subsidies and other forms of aid mainly to women, because they will make the best of the help to further progress.

 

[Son of Jamin]

Saudi Arabia over Iran



I can only guess that the ability of Saudis in general to pursue Western education through educational exchange with the US is what inflates their position.

Also very skeptical of Egypt over Jordan and Lebanon. I'm guessing it's the same deal re US exchange. Nicaragua, as always, is a beast.

I tried to make sense of why Saudi Arabia triumphs Iran.

You were correct, Saudi Arabia beats Iran when it comes educational attainment, better health and life expectancy, literacy rate, more women in parliament.

 

[KOQ24]

Some of those African countries are a surprise. I guess raping women like it is a sport does not count as gender inequality?

Since Paul Kagame took over, Rwanda has become one of the most successful countries in Africa.

Seems right. Most people I know who have travelled in that part of Africa say that the males are lazy as fuck and if you want anything done, talk to the women.
In a lot of places the males will be paid daily because if you pay them monthly they just don´t show up for work again until they are out of money

I've met some guys who worked in Nigeria and that's pretty much what they talked about.Women doing most of the work there.

 

[Madmick]

UK and Canada are only 15th and 16th? Surprising since they both have female Prime Ministers.

 

[Fawlty]

UK and Canada are only 15th and 16th? Surprising since they both have female Prime Ministers.

This is the same bad argument that says racism is gone because we elected Obama. Hell, we might have elected MLK in 1976, and nobody in their right mind would have called America racially equal in 1976. That's why they look at distribution instead of just outliers (though they give heads of state more weight). There is probably an important cultural threshold that has to be crossed before it is possible to elect a woman, but that does not mean that it's the only indicator of equality.



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[Armbars]

This is the same bad argument that says racism is gone because we elected Obama. Hell, we might have elected MLK in 1976, and nobody in their right mind would have called America racially equal in 1976. That's why they look at distribution instead of just outliers (though they give heads of state more weight). There is probably an important cultural threshold that has to be crossed before it is possible to elect a woman, but that does not mean that it's the only indicator of equality.

I think it was mainly a joke!

Unless the Canadian PM is in fact a woman.

 

[sub_thug]

This is the same bad argument that says racism is gone because we elected Obama. Hell, we might have elected MLK in 1976, and nobody in their right mind would have called America racially equal in 1976. That's why they look at distribution instead of just outliers (though they give heads of state more weight). There is probably an important cultural threshold that has to be crossed before it is possible to elect a woman, but that does not mean that it's the only indicator of equality.

But these are the same largely irrelevant factors that are inflating the score of the Philippines, are they not?

The reason why the Philippines rank that high is because:

* Equal literacy rate
* Wage equality
* Time with female head of state
* High level of professional and technical women working
* Equal distribution between male/women legislators, senior officials and managers.

To name a few

And are the UK and US lowered because we don't have more female politicians? The whole thing seems a little inconsistent to me with how they've established rankings.

 

[HockeyBjj]

UK and Canada are only 15th and 16th? Surprising since they both have female Prime Ministers.

This one took me a second

 

[Fawlty]

I think it was mainly a joke!

Unless the Canadian PM is in fact a woman.

Oh lord. It's early here, what can I say lol.