uh huh
I bet they never even visited these countries, they just collated some government statistics. Because governments never lie, right?
In the Philippines I believe it.
Women ARE pretty much equal, functionally. The Filipinos never had much of a prejudice against women in public office or the professions. For a supposedly macho Latin culture, girls are not valued less than boys, no matter their place in society. Womens lib as a movement never got much traction there, because there wasn’t much point in it.
This is a cultural matter that hasn’t got all that much to do with other measures of development. Just a quirk.
Its a rather odd thing to measure a country by, but whatever.