World Economic Forum (the Davos people) say wage gap to last at least 170 years.

EricAllonde · 2016-10-27T13:10:24+00:00

Feminists: "Women should be free to choose any type of work that they want to do. And they should be free to choose where to work, how many hours they want to work and even whether or not they want to work at all. Women should have complete freedom of choice about their work!"

Society: "OK, fair enough. Done."

Feminists: "Nooooo! Women are making the wrong choices. They're not doing what we told them to do. It's a disaster! Men, this is all your fault. Fix it right now!"

Fuck off.

BDMR_lurker · 2016-10-27T11:05:41+00:00

These are worldwide figures, which will be used as-is by comparatively rich, Western women, obviously.

Interactive WEF report and PDF version.

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Edit: the PDF is quite a long read.

Interesting fact: the female/men ratios don't seem to go above 1.0. Educational achievement for the US is listed as 1.0, when I'd expect more of 1.5 (.6 / .4, for 60% of female graduates).

Overshooting equality is apparently not an issue.

The real ratio is quoted p. 356: 1.37 in tertiary education.

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Edit 2: as pointed out by /u/Bizneria, these are per-country measures of how worse (or how better, in the West) women have it, not measures of the overall quality of life.

To wit: Rwanda is 5th overall, the UK 20th, the US 45th.

I guess, even as a woman, I'd rather live in not Rwanda.

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Edit 3: some of the figures are just, well, suspicious.

I've scanned a dozen European countries, they all list a literacy rate above 97%, ususally 99%, for both men and women.

I know for a fact than in at least half of these, 10 to 15% are barely able to decipher the TV guide. What you'd call functionally illiterate. Zoolander "Can't Read Good"-level.

Apparently figures from a UNESCO report. Low standards.

mikesteane · 2016-10-27T14:56:17+00:00

Last year they calculated 118 years, this year they say 170. If they actually knew what they were talking about, they would not be sponging taxpayers money, they would be playing the stock market.

Rethgil · 2016-10-27T21:27:00+00:00

An alternative headline would be "Unpopular wealthy bunch of people spout feminist rubbish in attempt to deflect hatred by courting stupid people".

Rasalom72 · 2016-10-27T16:57:53+00:00

The wage gap will last as long as wages are being paid. In 170 years, western civilization will no longer exist, and we will no longer be paying anyone to do anything as we will not have currency.

Women will be breeding and raising children, and men will be rebuilding society from scratch after the end.

Title	World Economic Forum (the Davos people) say wage gap to last at least 170 years.
Author	BDMR_lurker
Upvotes	7
Comments	8
Date	October 27, 2016 11:04 AM UTC (9 years ago)
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