Korea has fallen to 108 out of 130 in the World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Index, reports Yonhap.
Last year, it placed 97th out of 128.
If it makes anyone feel better, Japan placed 98th this year. China finished at 57.
(HT to reader)
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Damn, gotta beat ilbon.
Korea placed behind Syria. Don’t they still have honor killings there?
I remember going to watch a soccer game at a Norwegian Church group once. The men sat and watched the soccer, while the women carried mops and brooms around and cleaned the place up. As I’ve said before on this blog; what do Norwegians know, eh?
Canada in 2006: 14. In 2008: 31, one spot behind Namibia. What a bunch of misogynist Canuckistanis! I suppose that is why all their generously proportioned broads come over here to teach.
Does anyone know why the Philippines ranks so high? (Yes, it has a female premier, but so did Pakistan and Bangladesh.) And why IS Canada ranked so low?
#5: In the PI, the women do all the work while the guys play cards.
“Canada (31) falls 13 places this year and ranks behind
the United States for the first time since the Global
Gender Gap Index was launched three years ago. Canada
saw a minimal increase in the economic participation and
opportunity index score, driven by smaller gender gaps on
labour force participation, estimated earned income and
legislator, senior official and manager positions, but otherwise showed losses on both the educational attainment
subindex and the political empowerment subindex. On
political empowerment, Canada lost ground mainly on the
percentage of women among those holding ministerial
level positions.
http://www.weforum.org/pdf/gendergap/report2008.pdf
see the pdf page 69. There are 4 categories: Economic, Education, Health and Political Empowerment. Canada got creamed mainly for the lack of women in Parliament. Interestingly, our sex ratio at birth (fem/mal) is 0.94, which looks good, but ranks Canada 88th in that category.
its not how women are treated, they don’t go around asking people if they think their life sucks, truth is, in Korea women work but they don’t get to the high up posts, and very few are politicians. Syria has few female politicians but many more female managers. I don’t think either country is doing well in this regard but I’m glad someone is recognizing that just because you don’t kill women for acting up doesn’t mean you promote gender equality.
I’ve heard many time from Korean males(adult students) the Korean women have it good. I shrieked everytime I heard this and questioned them each time.
Check out what’s happening in Turkey…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_killing
I’ll never forget the time when I sat in a little dive Korean restaurant looking at this comic from one of the papers they give out at subway entrances.
It depicted a Korean male teacher speaking while spitting on young female students. The women in the restaurant didn’t see anything wrong with the comic strip.
I asked them if it were possible that the STUPID comic strip writer/drawer would ever depict a Korean female teacher speaking while spitting on young male students.
“that just because you don’t kill women for acting up doesn’t mean you promote gender equality.”
And killing them for acting up doesn’t effect gender equality, but having jobs does? What kind of screwed up ranking is this?
#7,
Well, we had Kim Campbell as Prime Minister, but that was a long time ago.
As for the number of female ministers…Blame Stephen Harper (although, he’s supposedly going to nominate more women in his cabinet).
Not that it really matters… Only the senior cabinet ministers have any important responsibilities. The others’ deputy ministers answer directly to the Prime Minister.
Thanks! You saved me a lot of trouble… I was on the verge of accepting a position in Yemen.
Seriously, as a teacher here I have time and time again seen a shade of disappointment on a girl student’s face when talking about their brother. You can see that he rules the roost on the home front.
The future looks bright though; with the falling birthrate, the Koreans, much like the Japanese will have to let women have more prominent roles in the workplace as their will not be enough people to fill those roles otherwise.
Bobby
http://www.idlewordship.com
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