[GeronL]

uh huh

I bet they never even visited these countries, they just collated some government statistics. Because governments never lie, right?

[SeekAndFind]

The Report can be accessed here:

http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GenderGap_Report_2012.pdf

THE USA IS RANKED #22 out of 135 ( See Page 8 ).

Last year, the United States ranked 17th, just behind the United Kingdom and just ahead of Canada, with a score of .7412. This year, amid a whole lot of talk about women’s rights and gender equality, the U.S. is ranked 22nd with a score of .7373 (its lowest since 2009).

The U.S. did manage to close the economic gender gap further even as its other scores slipped, along with fellow major economic powers, Japan and Germany.

The report ranks 135 countries (which collectively contain over 90 percent of the world’s population) based on 14 indicators used to measure the size of a nation’s gender gap in four key areas:
1. Economic participation and opportunity, which includes female labor force participation, wage equality and the percentage of women in high-ranking jobs.

2. Educational attainment, which looks at female literacy and how frequently women are enrolled in higher education.

3. Health and survival, which is measured by comparing female and male life expectancy and mortality rates.

4. Political empowerment, which examines the number of women holding political office as well as the number of female heads of state over the last 50 years.

[GeronL]

Meanwhile Hotel Room Maids take home about $131 a month in Philippines, such an advanced country... *snicker*

[count-your-change]

The Philippines has hundreds of thousands of child prostitutes and is one of the busiest centers for sex tourism. To speak of equal opportunity is like calling the Manson family surgeons.

[JediJones]

Interesting that Philippines and Ireland are in the top 6 yet abortion is illegal in both those countries. I’m glad this report wasn’t hijacked by feminists or they would’ve been at the bottom of the list, LOL.