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The Gender Gap: What the World Economic Forum got wrong | FACTUAL FEMINIST
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- Опубликовано: 21 дек 2015
- "Rwanda is beating the U.S. In Gender Equality" That is a headline from a recent news story in the Washington Post. Well, could it be true? Let's check the facts.
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The Global Gender Gap Report is a yearly study sponsored by The World Economic Forum. This is a prestigious group that meets in Davos Switzerland each year. It attracts more than 2500 of the world's leading figures in business and politics-people like Bill Gates and German Chancellor Angela Merkel show up. So do celebrities: Bono, Mick Jagger, and Angelina Jolie. The purpose of the gathering is admirable: to brainstorm on ways to make the world a better place. One way the Forum hopes to improve the world is to highlight “role models” of gender equity around the world.
Since 2006, the Forum has produced yearly reports ranking the world’s nations on gender-equality in key areas such as Economic opportunity, political empowerment, health and education. The just-released 2015 findings are typical of earlier reports. Rwanda, the Philippines and Nicaragua somehow get higher equity rankings than the US, Australia, Canada and Denmark.
Journalists, with few exceptions, have been electrified by the Gender Gap Study. Many have praised it for showing just how backward we are in the United States.
The Factual Feminist has concerns about the soundness of the gender gap study. The researchers are well-intentioned, but their study shows a lack of common sense.
This is strictly a study of gaps between the sexes. If men and women in nation X are equally illiterate, disenfranchised, and just as likely to die at an early age-that all but guarantees a high ranking. No gender gap-no problem. But that isn't always true. Gaps favoring women are just fine. If women turn out to be better educated, more likely to vote, less vulnerable to violence or early death-those gaps can actually help a county in the rankings. Look at Russia. According to the Davos study, Russian women enjoy 11 more healthy years of life than men. That is bad news for Russian men-but great for Russia's standing in the studies “Healthy Life Expectancy”
A Davos report that honestly showed the burdens and benefits of women and men around the world would be far more useful than this quirky, one-sided study. This 2004 chart from the World Health Organization shows men throughout the world at vastly higher risk for injury and violence. Gender gaps are complicated-but the World Economic Forum disguises that. It’s giving an over-simplified and distorted picture of what's really going on.
There are other troubling features: the study does not distinguish between free societies and dictatorships, and it greatly rewards countries that use gender quotas in allocating political positions. Countries that combine dictatorships and gender quotas (Cuba, Rwanda, Burundi) are almost guaranteed “role model” status in the category of political empowerment. Again, that is misleading. Rwanda’s 2003 constitution establishes gender quotas for the lower parliament. Women now occupy 64% of the seats. But that same constitution gives the current president close to absolute power-including the right to dissolve the parliament. The human rights watchdog group, Freedom House, gives Rwanda’s failing grades where political rights are concerned. In Mozambique and Burundi, almost everyone (male and female) is in the full-time labor force. That improves their Davos ranking, but is it a sign of progress and opportunity-or even true equality? These countries are not bastions of gender equality-what they are is desperately poor and nearly everyone is forced to work-men women and often children too. In wealthy countries like the U.S. and Germany lot of mothers choose to work part time, or even leave the workforce when they have children. But that creates gaps that get penalized by the Davos metrics.
The Gender Gap: What the World Economic Forum got wrong
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"woman are outliving men!!!"
yes okay but what about the men dying so youn-
"HAHAH DONT LOOK TOO INTO IT HAHAHA *EQUALITY* HAHAHA"
+Shoe0nHead
Pick and choose your battles is what I always say. You can't lose if you never show up to the battlefield
+Shoe0nHead
"yes okay but what about the men dying so youn-"
That sounds like an issue the MRA should be taking on.
Shh. Be very very quiet i'm pushing propaganda. *Does Elmber Fudd laugh.*
+Shoe0nHead As a woman, what are you doing to ensure that Armoured Skeptic dies long before you do, thus ensuring equality?
TeaDoogun Na what you should do with a man slave is make sure they live as long as possible. Then hire a necromancer or buy a book of how to make a vampire for dumbies.
Turn them into a vampire and have your self a brand new vampire servant, ready to please all your vamp fan fic needs.
This is the problem with measuring by the equity rather than equality. In a free society one would expect nothing but varying outcomes, some high and some low, as the result of equality of opportunity, instead of in an unfree society that has equity of outcomes, all low.
Yeh, but even in a society with true freedom of everything, from study to job choice to baby choice, feminists would probably still complain about muh patriarchy.
+Sargon of Akkad Came here after watching a few of Ghazi (Black Hitler's) vids you linked in the segment you did on him, can't tell you how refreshing it was to hear this lovely woman's rationale and logic compared to that tard's claims that Africans made everything in the modern world.
This is what happens with any group that gets so caught up with their own ideology - they forget that humans don't fit into a fucking box. It's like they refuse to learn their lesson from how they got the "wage gap" nonsense so catastrophically wrong.
+Sargon of Akkad • I think what is fascinating tends to be that less than 2 Decades ago, (Western) Society would celebrate Freedom of Choice and Agency as pinnacles of our civilisation; with a value placed upon Education and the Individual to establish Diverse Outcomes.
It wasn't a bad thing to be a Divergent Individual, where-as no it seems like there are groups who want to push for an ever increasing Convergence regardless of how our own Society cannot operate like that. Democracy for example simply becomes impossible if we all think the same.
There is something quite bizarre when the loudest voices are arguing that there needs to be better Colour Selections of VW... because of course that is somehow an important factor not that they cheated Safety, Emissions, etc. Just such a weird disconnect from reality that is dangerous in the hands of the ill educated. I won't say uneducated because often they are, but ill educated is a very apt term - as these are people who are smart enough to sound authoritative without actually commanding any semblance of factual information.
Snake Oil Salesmen if you will.
+Jeb Woodhouse As if they don't already!
You are the definition of a REAL empowered woman.
christina, thats an awesome new haircut you got! i must say :D
+EnderCrypt Nice micro aggression. You wouldn't say that to a man. :D
Calvin Smith ahh, oh no, you caught me :D xD
***** very true ^_^ luckily, we where wrong :D
+EnderCrypt I was going to say the same thing, Love the hair :D
+EnderCrypt Milo's influence
I really wish all feminist could be like you. I wouldn't dislike feminist so much, if they could be as rational and fair-minded as you are.
I've been working for a Government department in Australia for the past 10 years. It's been my anecdotal observation that as women obtain higher job classifications, that their desire to work "fulltime" diminishes. Or to put it another way; their objective appears to be to maintain a standard of income/living, but reduce the number of actual hours required to achieve the desired standard. Working in government affords that opportunity. However less-so in private enterprise.
And yet inversely, it appears as men increase their job classification, their attendance stays the same & often increases.
+Anamnesia US labor statistics show men work more hours after they get married, and women work fewer. The phenomenon reverses after divorce. It shouldn't be hard to work out what's happening here and decide who, if anyone, could properly be called "oppressed".
All normal people would like to have more rest and spend less time at work. Or at least should be. Better be obsessed with health, for which good sleep and good rest is necessary, than be obsessdd with a job. Men often get very attached to their jobs, and some women do that too. Those people start to think that their job defines them and all tgeir value as a person. And if people who think like that lose their job their self-esteem is destroyed and they become depressed or very angry
+Kate Senatskaya I have no doubt that in some instances what you've outlined (in terms of work obsession) is true.
It doesn't diminish the anecdotal observation of my statement. If "All normal people would like to have more rest and spend less time at work" then either we have a lot of abnormal people, or we have only a few "normal" people who take advantage of reduced hours, as an encumbrance on their employer & people they work with.
If one person works 0.8 Full Time Equivalent (FTE), it's difficult to find someone (in a skilled capacity) who is prepared to be employed for 0.2 FTE.
+Anamnesia I know a lot of primary school teachers (a predominantly female career), and of them a pretty significant number teach 3 or 4 days a week so that they have extra time with their children. Every one I know of who does that is female. Every male classroom teacher I know of is full-time.
Every time I hear somebody cry foul over how, _"A man is not forced to choose between his family or his career"_, my thought is simply: *Correct - men aren't typically **_allowed the luxury_** of that choice.*
+Kate Senatskaya no one ever died wishing they'd spent more time at the office.
Its correct, in poorer countries getting a social science degree is going to get your parents to slap you upside your head. Asian/indian parents so emphasize the "doctor" or "engineer" degrees for a good reason, stability and of course the prestige that comes with it. So there are many more women in stem in those countries, even if they don't end up using them, its simply an familial obligation.
And of course in the nordic countries, jobs are becoming ever more gender segregated as they are more "free" to choose.
+wooo weee I wonder how many of those stem women are miserable and rightfully consider themselves oppressed because of it. How do feminists react to that fact I wonder?
+wooo weee hahaha moderately correct. Well, at least in Mexico, parent's priority is to get the kids out of poverty in a stable job so they will pressure them into whatever they think it will accomplish this, most likely the "classic" careers they themselves followed. They will also kick them outta the house should the kids choose to became "dirty hippies" and go on social sciences or arts.
Have in mind that here, since to enter college you have to enroll directly into a major, you *must* decide for a career before entering college. That means by the time you have to make *the* decision, you are totally dependent on your parents and their opinion matters a lot. No support? You're fucked.
Because STEM is so underestimated in the collective imaginary, parents won't force their kids to study that. Most parents see STEM as "I don't know what is this but sounds difficult, it probably pays well". As a result, pretty much all the women in STEM are there for their own will. Besides, STEM is seen for the ones who know about it as this one way ticket to better the country ... or to get out of it quick.
The situation is more over the same for both sexes, although as a girl you may receive nasty sexist coments from your grandparents -usually your grandma- about how you should forget all that and get a rich husband independently of what you choose or IF you choose.
You are right here in India it doesn't matter if your a boy or a girl, unless you pursue you parents, you will go to get a engineering or medical degree, although I have seen many people pursue girls for medical specifically though.
Argentina rank 1? I live in Buenos Aires, as a male I don't have the same paternity leave as women, not even the same benefits as they do, to the point were I am not elegible to receive a surplus in my salary to cover for my children education, besides that social programs here are so broken that many women (lower class women, uneducated) actually have as many kids as they can to receive more government support... which is not given to males. And I can only retire at 65 (women 60) despite having a shorter life expectancy. Thankfully we don't have quotas.
And though Argentina does not really clasify as a poor country, the development of it is highly disproportionated, some cities are highly developed, some provinces are really really poor.
+EliamDar That's done deliberately to bust up families so that the state becomes the most powerful in the relationship. This is a very long running international communist program, or what is contemporarily known as cultural Marxism. Your nation and many like it are being deliberately destroyed by Fabian socialism.
+kmg501 thankfully no, on the last elections the left lost. Don't get me wrong I am left leaning, but I want liberty and equality of opportunities (not results). The last leftist government was starting to look too much as the dictatorship we had in the 70s (in the sense that they were really aggressive against different ideologies), trying to lower everything to the lowest standard, pissing on the middle class, blocking trade with nations they did not agree with and so on. In the last 10 days (since the government changed) things have started to change... rather quickly.
Funny thing... the right dictatorship led us to a war agains britain (which we could not really won), and the left government was very confrontational with britain as well..
*****
Yes I did, I also read the new Civilian and Commercial code approved by the leftists "K".,,, when property is subjected to social and cultural interests, there is no private property. I hope they remove that now.
Have you noted how the press is treating any crime against women as much more relevant as the men killed daily due to the insecurity we have?
+EliamDar left leaning? no creo, campeón. Nadie que use la cabeza saca al conclusión de que las mujeres (ignorantes según vos, a pesar del 97.2% de alfabetización) se embarazan para cobrar un plan. Estás muy confundido con lo que es la izquierda.
Nicote No todas, pero muchas lo hacen. Como no todos lo que estan con planes lo hacen en forma maliciosa, pero muchos si, hay gente que trabaja en negro y no blanquea para seguir cobrando. Desde la base esta mal que un plan social lo maneje un puntero politico. El tono condescendiente no te sienta "Campeon". Izquierda y populismo son cosas distintas.
Ademas "left leaning" no significa de izquierda, simplemente que comparto algunos principios.
Here is a typical female comment, but it's positive.
Your hair looks great in this hairstyle!
Thank you for being an inspirational role model! I have the womanly duty of raising 3 boys. With all the man-bashing rhetoric, I have concern about the type world my kids are going to become a part of.
I really appreciate your fair and thorough gender analysis.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and my fellow audience members :)
I'm always baffled how few views these videos get.
Awesome material as always. Keep it up!
I suspect her videos may get fewer views because she emphasizes facts, data, and critical reasoning, and does not slavishly promote the current extremist agenda and narrative.
You'd think with a title like this, there would be flocks of Feminists and SJW's disliking this video, but only 6...
Oh that's right, you're talking facts, my bad, carry on ;)
Great video as usual FF "does not mean feminist frequency"
As I'm dying a horrible premature death, I'll take such comfort in knowing that policy makers who want the world to be a better place view it as great because it makes the numbers they choose to care about go up.
Are you alright?
Christina, you truly are one of the most refreshing intellectuals of our time.
Thanks for being a voice of reason. You never merely repeat what you read or hear. Critical thinking skills are uncommon but your use of them will make many seek and acquire reason at its best. Example is a good teacher. Thanks again. Blessings.
Your hair looks beautiful in this video based mommy
Want mommy milkies
I like the energy we brought to the studio today (5 years ago tho lol)
Who on Earth cares about that...? 🤔
Christina, you clearly have a better understanding of statistics over many. Have you ever tried publishing reports on these types of subjects?
Of course Rwanda is beating the U.S. in Gender Equality. Things are equally shitty there for both men and women. So, equality.
Why am I just discovering you now?
Great though! I've got years' worth of content to binge.
Thanks you're awesome
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"well-intentioned".
I'm sorry, but when you get to that level, and these kinds of "errors" creep in, they aren't errors any more. They're fraud.
+rg0057 Probably doesn't want to be sued.
Here in Sweden the wagegap is 18 %. 8 of which were not able to be explained by other factors. SCBs conclusion is that those 8 % are either due to direct discrimination and/or that their models aren't complete, and there's no way for us to now to what degree those 2 things are responsible for the 8 %.
I agee with your conclusions and I also think it the forum is for self important people and their misplace beliefs that they alone can change the world.
Thank you for addressing that. I saw that report before and smelled bullshit, but didn't have the facts to back up that impression. Now I have.
I grew up thinking I was an individual, only to BE TOLD I am a GROUP.
Love the new hair Mom!
+ScottishAtheist that's so cute that you guys call her Mom, she must feel very happy and proud
Mum*
+Dr Alec Reaper
American English "Mom"
Proper English "Mum"
+Dr Alec Reaper
Also try to remember he's Scottish. It's quite the achievement he can even work a computer. So ease up on the guy will you lol
+ScottishAtheist *BASED Mom :p
Wow an intelligent review compared to the news bites of all the rags around the world. Tried to find where how they did their research myself but wasn’t written as a true scientific paper. No mention of limitations to findings anywhere! Why is a false report helpful?! Keep up the great work!
In other words, in a very literal sense, *the study is right*. If people live short lives in poverty and sickness under an oppressive regime, there can absolutely be gender equality in their society if their suffering is indiscriminate. Might as well publish an article titled "Want gender equality? Move to Rwanda.": "No, seriously - move to Rwanda. People are more equal there. Go right ahead. I'll stay here and bear the burdens of discrimination. Woe is me!" ;).
I swear, what Americans lack is a certain level of cynical resignation towards too-good-to-be-true ideas that comes with living in a post-socialist country. "W założeniu wszyscy mieli mieć po równo. W praktyce wszyscy mieli po gówno". What really gets to me, however, is how certain groups insist on central control over artistic depictions. Yeah, that doesn't sound familiar at all...
Seems to be a common theme. All well and good to collect a bunch of data, but it's what one does with the data that really counts. This video has been very informative.
my theory was correct! Christina Hoff Sommers just becomes more beautiful the older she gets! it's almost the same as patrick stewart not aging...
Fabulous hair based Mom. Feminists will soon call me out for objectification. haha.
+digy1st transphobe #triggered
+mike cole beware... i'm going to be extremely triggering right now!!!!MANkind White Man Videogames DOAX3 GamerGate Notyourshield Nero ChristinaHoffSommers A shirt with women on them Science Rockets "FINISH HIM/HER"!!!!!up up down down left right left right PATRIARCHY!!!!!!!!
+digy1st
I have noticed that Professor Fiamengo has also upped her hair game. A little competition among some of the best RUclips women, perhaps? Or just the holidays?
+digy1st Because aparrently, people can't be seen as both attractive *and* as people. Silly feminists..
robinchwan well ... that escalated quickly
You are on target as usual. However, my question is: do these types of large high profile conferences ever accomplish anything useful? They look to me more about celebrities getting in a some travel and hor dourves and feeling important while accomplishing nothing.
Like the do; great arguments (as always). Merry Christmas!
I've had concerns about this since I saw some Congolese girls taking African American women to task for lauding Rwanda's parliament. The Congo is routinely attacked by their genocidal northern neighbor. Thank you for diving into the metrics. Also, I have to agree with other commenters about your hair: it looks fantastic!
The thing I like most about your hair is the intelligence and eloquence of that hair's owner.
Why aren't there more feminists like Christina, instead of the SJW embarrassments that keep stealing the mic...
Thank you Based Mom for factchecking and dropping more infobombs on us.
Love the hair!
This lady is truly empowered. Her ammunition is factual based Knowledge and sound logic.
Christina, you're so classy. Stay that way. You're awesome
Thank you for what you do and the hard work you and everyone put into this channel. As a man it is nice to be validated every once in a while :)
Feminist should move to Rwanda then.
Equity? Or equality?
+dombower .....both.....?
equality is impossible, ask a blind man if he's equal to one who can see. while equity, the idea of equal opportunity, is not I can offer my blind neighbor the same opportunity as my neighbor who can see
+dombower Equity implies someone has a handicap. Or someone has an advantage.
+Josh Arnold equality in this case should be "equal opportunity", while equity is more "equal outcome", I think
+Libin Wang look up the definition of equity it is the quality of being fair and impartial, this is what we want while equality is the idea that everyone is equal, again ask my blind neighbor if he's equal to someone who can see I'm probably not equal to you I have as per gers syndrome, I know I'm not equal to others I simply ask for the same chance every one else has to prove he can work for an equal wage
hello i came across this channel a few days ago watched a fair amount of the videos! and you are awesome i wish there where more human beings like you in the world :)
I wish I was related to her, so I could get her flowers every Christmas,
Based mom is the fairy grandmother I've never had
I first looked at their gender gap report a few years ago and quickly noticed it ranked countries by *female supremacy* rather than by equality. Possibly the most biased example is in one of the education categories, where Qatar is ranked top even though it has a 7:1 gender imbalance. The lowest-ranked country (in 2014) had a 1:4 gender imbalance, which is actually _more equal_ than the top-ranked country!
I LOVE your hair in this one C.H Sommers, sooo adorable aww :3
I think having fabulous hair should be accounted by the index
Wow. I'm impressed! Great video, Factual Feminist. I may just watch more of your stuff. It's great to hear a feminist actually recognize that men and women quite possibly could be different and that differences may not be injustices.
These videos seem more unbiased than most videos out there. Does anybody have any recommendations for similar youtube channels on other areas of politics?
To be fair, we should not expect a gender gap index to be indicative of political freedom, competitiveness, or anything else. There are other indices for that. And in the end, the discussions this research has sparked - in this video, in Huffington Post, and elsewhere - is certainly a step towards a more nuanced gender debate.
But the most disturbing and distorting aspect of the methodology is that it does not let gender gaps favoring women to enter into the calculation. Women outliving men is registered as a 0% gender gap, not as a negative one. Surely it is misleading to claim that men are doing better than women in education and health?
+Landjo It's ideology, not fact. I can't see how this can be disputed, and it's intended to be misleading.
I used to think these seemingly intelligent professionals that work on these types of studies were accidently missing something. I now realize that these types of studies are ideological willful ignorance with the purpose of promoting an ideological agenda. If you're an ideologue whose ideas don't work, where do you go? Government and the Universities.
Brilliant, couldn't agree more. Rwanda and Burundi are not bastions of equality and these international surveys have an agenda!
Long-winded rant incoming!
I think one of the major reasons, going off of the information provided by the more thorough study about prosperity, as it applies to gender parity and self-actualization is rooted in the fact that BECAUSE the US and Canada are more prosperous, we're able to play more than survive, because of the fact that poorer nations are giving up on dreams for practical reasons... and I don't blame them. If I lived in a less-prosperous nation, I would still want to be an artist and a potential creative director, but in my case, I'd be forced to rely on my inherent strengths as a means to increase productivity, and I'd only be able to chase my dream as a means of stress relief, whereas in the United States, I'm able to kick back and put some time into my hobby/potential future job, and play around WHILE having a job.
Because I realize that being in a first-world country gives me privileges otherwise unattainable, and I remember the old proverb written by Sa'di (Persian poet ca. 1184-1291) "I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet", I can appreciate and be grateful for that privilege. I rarely use the descriptor "first-world country" out of respect for those in impoverished nations, as I find it insulting to their dignity to put a ranking on my own country over theirs, because I may spend a day without shoes, but some spend their entire life without feet. Every country has its strong points as to why it is great, according to each citizen. I greatly respect people who may hate their situation, but find a way to make the best of it, but I will never pity those who put in the work and strive for a better life.
Sa'di also goes on to say, in that same poem or proverb:
"A roast fowl is to the sight of a satiated man less valuable than a blade of fresh grass on the table, and to him who has no means nor power, a burnt turnip is a roasted fowl"
We in the states could learn from Sa'di and his revelation at the mosque of Kufah, I think.
I found your videos through TL;DR/Teal Deer and I absolutely love them. Christina Hoff SOmmers, you're an exceptional women and I have the deepest respect for you.
Loving the new do, plus to a lesser extent the things you said
Thank you Christina! I always very much enjoy and learn from watching your Factual Feminist videos. Keep them coming!
I noticed that since I've been away from college on winter break and working part time my frustration, and interest in gender politics has all but vanished. College sucks.
Great video, but I feel like it's missing the part about the outrageous way it measured pay equality.
the tl;dr of it is, they asked people to which degree women and men make the same from the same job on a scale of 1 to 7 where 1 is "women make vastly less" and 7 is "equal", then averaged it and divided by 7.
Great video once again!
This is great news. RadFems can now move to Rwanda, Namibia and others as they are clearly better countries for them. A senseless study has some numbers about it, so it must be true.
I don't like the idea that distinct advantages or successes women have over men is considered "good", but any advantages or success men have over women is considered "bad". It's a stupid game to compare who is more of a victim. Every unique female disadvantage can be matched with some uniquely male disadvantage. You can support women empowerment without making all males out to be oppressors.
She's so damn smart. I'm ashamed to admit I would't have been able to dissect it this well.
In India certainly more women than men represented in local municipalities through gender quotas(50% reserved for women & rest 50% open for both men & women) is openly talked about as progress & women power.
Even public transport like local trains have reserved compartments just for women & the rest for both men & women. Despite the over crowdedness causing over 300-400 deaths by passengers falling off of running trains annually mostly all men the debate is always about increasing women's safety in local trains. Even CCTV cameras are discussed only for women's compartments where the issue often is about women being attacked by other women as men legally are prohibited from entering it no matter how much in a hurry you are or overcrowded the open compartments are with a police constable present to ensure no man gets in but is often helpless in case of women starting a fight with each other coz he's not allowed to touch women(male police aren't allowed to arrest women without the presence of female police who are under qualified recruited with lower standards & often unable to do their jobs making it difficult for male police to deal with female hooligans even in their presence) & the fact that men suffer those same problems on a much higher scale. It's worse with crime where police is legally required to take women's complaints seriously(even if the complaints are trivial or false) but no such requirement for men's complaints(no matter how serious the complaints may be). In complaints against men police are required to investigate assuming men are at fault & in case the complaints turn out to be false no action against the women is taken.
All of this is considered progress by feminists in India while many still demanding stricter & harsher methods claiming that's still not enough.
without actually having analysed the report / study yet, I'm immediately sceptical of the reported findings. An easy experiment for any woman tempted to take this at face value is to live in Uganda, then report back and let us know if she felt more or less empowered and equal than in a western secular democracy.
I think that the factual feminist has once again proven that the people with openly imbalanced agendas should not be the most publicised people summarising and reporting on large world-wide surveys, data pools and quality of life metrics.A great breakdown of the pertinent information as always, thank you.
12 views? FIRST FOR GAP!
Can we just talk about how lovely she is? I have only listened to the femsplainers podcast, but never seen her in a video! Ms. Sommers is gorgeous !!
Nobody has potato in Latvia. Is very equal country.
I love your new hair style
It is always bad to make a competition about who is the most opppressed. But this video put the light on the other side of the coin, that side that is obscured by the dominant point of view, the feminist one. We always should see and study a phenomenon from all the perspectives and consider it in its entirety and complexity, with a rational and open mind, without being biased and conditioned by our belonging to a specific genre or group.
I know many career women from poorer countries, I don't know a single Vietnamese woman with less than a Bachelor's in Science, and this seems to be the default in most of Asia, meanwhile here in the Netherlands I keep meeting women who wanted to go into the healthcare industry taking care of either children or the elderly, in Hanoi I've seen more construction women on a single site than I've seen in all of Europe, North-America and South-America combined, Western women choosing not to do soul crushing stressful jobs is a privilege, not oppression.
Men are still better
I have done some research on Rwanda. It is actually much more democratic than the United States and most other countries. A slight majority of Rwandan parliamentarians are women and in a recent referendum, 98% of Rwandans voted to allow their President stand for another term. Rwanda is a wonderful little country.
Great video.
New haircut! Cool! :)
Perfect
Fantastic as always.
Well done as usual.
These videos are amazing. Thank you.
I come into the video and the first thing I think after hearing the headline about Rwanda is, "Did Mrs. Sommers do something with her hair, because it looks *CUTE*!"
Love your work
the fact that a feminist is looking at real facts is the most surprising thing iv seen in a while.
more videos please =)
Keep it up Mrs. Sommers.
Dear Based Mom, I may be only 28 but that salutation makes me feel pretty damn old. Damn u tweens. I would like to know what motivates you to contribute in today's advocacies. Kind regards, Mathew Cloin
Wow...i just discovered this channel. Its like i opened the window to my brain and let the fresh logic and facts blow in. Subscribed...better late than never. ^ ^
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Thank you for this video.
A feminist that's logical? WHAT!
If people are intrigued by this video, I suggest checking out "Brainwash: The Gender Equality Paradox" on youtube as it explored what Sommers described here: Inequality doesn't necessarily mean inequity, more freedom means more diverse career choices, etc.
i find it alarming that denmark is that low on the score as im born and raised here.
now that feminism in the anita sarkiesian way has come here most of my fellow contry folk are shaking their heads in disbelive that someone can say equallity is when men take all the blame and let women be above them.
i tend to lean more towards equality of outcome, at least when it comes to race (though not by using quotas) but different races have very little variation beyond physical ones. But genders are a completely different story, and this video has helped convince me of something I've been thinking about for quite some time: the scientific evidence simply shows that men and women are different enough to cause different outcomes in the economy. It's strange because I've been nervous about fully embracing this conclusion for fear of enforcing gender roles or being sexist. I thought my mind was free from all this garbage, given how much I despise third wave feminism. Yet, I notice that I'm incredibly cautious of the conclusion that men and women are this different. Feminists talk about "internalized misogyny", but it appears I have internalized over sensitivity.
Thank you for the work you do. Hearing a calm middle ground that's well reasoned, or at the very least cautious to take strong opinions on incredibly complex issues, is refreshing.
+TheGreatYukon Equality of outcome???Sorry,NO.Unless you raise clones of the same organism in the same environment,you will NOT get equality of outcome.
Ionescu Constantin Rough equality of outcome, not communist level equality. Calm the hell down mate.
I think the Philippine ranking is about right - but agree with the VOA report that it would change if other indicators were included, such as trafficking and domestic abuse.
Goddamn she's good
#RespectYourMother
Year 2019. It's now 208 years to achieved equality, up from 83 years
I was lucky, I didn't even know what gender inequality was when I was younger. In the Philippines gender is basically low on the priority list. Filipino parents tend to give the most resources to the child who is most promising future, if they have limited resources. They don't really care much about gender, it only plays when it's about passing the family name (they try to at least have one son, and if they already have a son, they want to get a daughter; people generally want what they don't have); parents would go through everything to ensure all their children have decent lives. I was lucky enough to even ask ''why is there a women and children's desk ?'' in police stations etc. as a little kid I grew up that being treated equally (salary, leaves etc.) was the norm, that I didn't even know what gender inequality was; I only encountered the term when I was taught about it in school, I didn't really give it much thought cause I really wasn't affected; Mom was the boss at home, and my grandmother is pretty much the big boss of the clan. The phenomenon of battered husbands are as prevalent as battered wives, it can appear in any class, it's just the matter of the person, gender means nothing. A bad person is still a bad person. Children were raised to get what they wanted to have and what they wanted to achieve, gender was rarely a thought. Trying to stay out of poverty is more important to most, as well as aiming as high as one can. Class difference is more of a problem here than gender inequality. Our language is generally gender neutral, excluding loan words it also depends on the dialect. Those who carry on old colonial ideals in isolated communities and very traditional or by the book religious families may experience inequality, but even then, those children are generally treated much more equally, and tend to value modern views on gender, some parents may not accept it but they don't enforce it to a reluctant child. (And when I mean isolated communities, I am not pertaining to local tribes, pre-colonial philippines cares more about the family you were born into than your gender; warrior class, slave class, free class, ruling class; I did say that the Philippines has more of a class problem)You can reach opportunities made available to your class, mobility is a bit more lax but it requires effort to go to a higher class, especially if you belong to the poorest of the poor class. The world needs to minimize the damage done by 'bad' people, cause if you 'get rid' of them that is still 'bad'. What I would like to call as the state of being 'Bad' is generally due to circumstances, experiences etc. Hopefully minimizing the bad things minimize... I'll stop that thought as it would be a different topic altogether.
The reason why some countries outrank the other can possibly be rooted from the culture. Philippine history, shows signs of such equality among both sexes during pre-colonial times, although such rich trading history and culture cannot be studied as much because the 'Kastila' pretty much burned records or perished in time, writing systems were modified to fit the colonizers l angguage etc. Colonization brought, somewhat 'Victorian' gender roles, (Coudn't find a proper term, I'm getting lazy with how long this comment is 😴) and women maintained power through controlling the 'home' while men thrived on the outside (not sure if it was purely at face value, some men refer to their wives as 'commander' , sometimes as a joke or cause they rule the household.
I'm not expanding certain topics cause I'm not writing some article, and I teens like me still need sleep (I still find it funny that as a child most didn't appreciate sleep and as we grow older we actually learn to love it cause school pretty much explains it😂😂😂). I still have a lot of things to learn.
When I saw how my country ranked I wasn't surprised, if you asked me if it is really true then I'd say yes,, I was surprised at how other developed countries ranked, I was confused, then I read about wage inequality between gender and all I could really say was ''Seriously?''
Isn't it suppose to be the first one fixed when reaching gender equally etc. ???
Although it might be cultural? historical? norm differences?, I just can't get my mind around it.
Is the Philippines really deserving to be called one of the most gender equal countries? I say Yes.
Class mobility(upward)? Not so much, It really depends on certain factors.
Instead of thinking about filling gender quotas, think about giving both sexes more choice and ability to have such choices, the quota would eventually fill itself, if it doesn't then it's generally a choice by most not to.
Both sexes have a choice available by the families one is born in here, Upward mobility is probably much more of a concern here.
I won't check for spelling errors, wrong puncuation, etc. this comment was longer than what I wanted to say. Some points weren't expanded or even mentioned, this comment is too long as it is 😂😂😂😂😂.
Good luck with your advocasies, I wish everyone well.
Most would probably do skip reading, this comment is waaaaayyyyy tooooooo long 😂😂😂😂.
Love the video. Love your hair.
From what I understand, women in India are likely to pursue a career in the tech industry if they're of a lower caste. It's one of the few opportunities they have to get ahead in life, so they take advantage of that. Supposedly, it's common for those who later move to another country such as the US to drop that career after a while to pursue something they're more interested in, though I haven't seen any actual data on this. Based on the economic state of Mexico and Turkey, I wouldn't be surprised if a good chunk of these female coders are in a similar situation.
Maybe this question it's kinda pointless in the channel of the American Enterprise Institute, but is any statistic that not shows the USA on top of it wrong?
It seems from what I've seen is that these gaps appear when we have the freedom to choose. So maybe the gap should be seen as a positive?
Equity is not Equality. Otherwise China would be the happiest place on Earth.
I'm glad to hear a nontoxic way of dealing with all this all us men want is someone who truly love and respect us and all the rest jobs money we don't care how much you got we just want a partner not a person who wants to tear us down so they fill like there somehow above us equal that's the word not take over everything it takes 2 to make a relationship thanks I'm mike
Love the new hair. It's troubling that an organization with such name recognition would put out such a misleading report.
5:20 - this study apparently describes Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. YAY
"While their intentions were good..." ... I'm not really sure how that can be said when it's obviously a "study" to promote an agenda. It was done with nefarious intentions.
I love the new hairstyle!!!