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Canada Slips From 14th To 18th Place In World Rankings On Gender Equality

Posted on Thursday, November 08 at 14:45 by N Say
New Zealand, the Philippines, Germany, Denmark, Ireland, and Spain rounded out the top 10. The United States finished in 31st spot, down eight places from last year. Based on a scale in which perfect equality was assigned a score of 1.0, Canada achieved an overall mark of 0.72. That included almost perfect marks in the categories of educational attainment (0.999) and health and survival (0.979). But it scored lower on economic participation and opportunity (0.74) and much lower (0.159) on political empowerment, with women making up only 21 per cent of MPs and 23 per cent of cabinet posts in Parliament. ... On the Net: www.weforum.org/pdf/gendergap/report2007.pdf http://www.canadaeast.com/rss/article/121400

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  1. by Dave Ruston
    Fri Nov 09, 2007 2:20 am
    Again, as we see governments part and parcel to the turning back the clock as far as freedom, democracy, and affluence are concerned, people fall through the cracks. We surely can`t call ourselves free or democratic if economic apartheid exists. But of course, we like to tell ourselves that we don`t discriminate against blacks, women, etc. Sounds good on paper, but just take a good look around.

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    Dave Ruston

  2. by hal
    Fri Nov 09, 2007 5:11 am
    Oh what a STOOL of Self-Flagulating-Anti-White-Male Euro-Craponni!...What is this a race now too? PFFFFT!...Anything in the top 30 is fine by me, goodnite.

    Do the judgers consider the broader range of our society? like more native populations on a very different economic system? The rising percentage of Boomers? or a larger immigrant population whos women are not or NEVER WERE in any economic role, wherever they came from?

    Do I give a damn if the winning countries have 0 birthrate because they have 0 motherhood? or 0 immagrants? Do you think the people at the bottom of that 128 country list give a damn if Canada fell 4 Euro-points???....give yur food dish a shake.

    Fact is...give those poor blokes a choise of where they could wake up tomorow, that country likely dosent need advise from Geneva.

    Hal,
    Ottawa

  3. by graham watt
    Fri Nov 09, 2007 3:15 pm
    Hal, take it easy. Remember those salt licks you used to see on valley dairy
    farms? I think they have them now with Valium. Get one.

  4. by rearguard
    Fri Nov 09, 2007 4:23 pm
    "Sweden, which has more women then men holding high public office, topping the list."

    Hummm, me thinks whoever wrote up the ranking method was more than a little biased, since had the reverse been true, i.e., "more men than women holding high public office", Sweden would have fallen a few steps in rank.

    Can anyone spell "hypocrisy"?

  5. by Diogenes
    Fri Nov 09, 2007 6:17 pm
    Eh wot, Mr. g watt?
    The way I read it Big Pharma and the owners of the universe much prefer that the herd not be heard and opt for the chemical equivalent of the saltlick. After all, complacency is their preferred state for us when passion becomes evident.


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    "When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do."

    William Blake



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