WEF Gender Gap Report. Thoughts?

Doctor_Loggins · 2012-07-02T12:00:09+00:00

It's simple: inequalities suffered by men don't count. Any male disadvantage is treated as a perfect equality and excluded from the index.

This is what feminists mean when they say that "feminism is about equality".

Dranosh · 2012-07-02T16:05:27+00:00

People need to stop thinking about wanting equal outcomes, we already have equal opportunity

graffiti81 · 2012-07-02T13:40:36+00:00

I think there's no fricking way I'm reading a 375 page report.

omarsdroog · 2012-07-02T17:05:31+00:00

I see the numbers topped out at 1.000 for education even though more women in the US go to and finish college.

I'm also skeptical of the life expectancy portion, seeing as women live longer, are less often the victims of violence, are significantly less likely to take dangerous jobs, are less likely to die from heart disease, lung, pancreatic, prostate cancer, leukemia, have strokes, etc. Are they listing pregnancy as a kind of "unhealthy time period?"

Feckless · 2012-07-02T19:17:51+00:00

Check Russia (p 298). Life expectancy, women 65, men 55. HOORAH EQUALITY.

Mitschu · 2012-07-02T22:40:31+00:00

I find it amusing how many countries score a 1.00 / 1.00 in Education. They're perfectly willing to show a 0.01% or higher difference when it favors men, but when it favors women... whoops, the scale doesn't go above 1, sorry!

You know, it's just shitty science and shitty math when the method you use forces a binary outcome on a tertiary equation like that; either > which is not equal, or <= which is equal. (For the non-nerds, x > y is "x is greater than y", x <= y is "x is less than or equal to y" - what they're claiming is that x <= y is "x is less than AND equal to y.")

If this were a computer program, it would shut down and pop up a debug console message about how the class was declared boolean but returned out of bounds.

I also love how they point out on page 22 that in countries where women were a larger percentage of the workforce, the wage gap diminished down to a negligible number. Gee, what a skull scratcher. You mean... if women do the same amount of work... they get the same amount of pay?

Well, shit, I bet they discovered that at the end of writing their 350 page report, and were like "Fuck. That negates everything we just said. What do we do with this massive stack of documented statistical lies?" "Eh, publish it anyway, I'm sure nobody will notice."

Title	WEF Gender Gap Report. Thoughts?
Author	doch_doch
Upvotes	19
Comments	16
Date	July 2, 2012 11:47 AM UTC (14 years ago)
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