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March 20, 2012

Men's News From Brighton & Hove, England

(This post is a continuation – click here to read Part 1)
  • In Burundi where fewer men work, fewer boys go to primary school and women live longer
  • In Estonia where around 70% of graduates and professional/technical workers are women
  • In Jamaica where women are twice as likely to go to university and nearly 50% more likely to be legislators, senior officials, and managers
  • In Russia where men die 12 years sooner than women on average
  • In Qatar where women are more that 6 times more likely to go to university

In all of these categories men are not categorized as being unequal, women are categorized as being MORE EQUAL and while the authors of the index claim to be ranking countries’ by their “proximity to gender equality”  countries lose ranking points when women are unequal but don’t lose ranking points when men are unequal.

Once you realize that…

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