Global Gender Gap Report 2011

http://www.weforum.org/

01.11.2011

The World Economic Forum launches a new edition of its Global Gender Gap Report. In this video, Saadia Zahidi, Laura Liswood and Tian Wei look at the facts behind the numbers and discuss the report's relevance as a policy-shaping tool.

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[sulljoh1]

It is fair to ask:

"what would a perfectly fair society look like? A society free of barriers where everybody has equal opportunity regardless of race, gender, etc."

It *might* still be a society where the average income of men and women is different, simply because of genetic or social statistical average differences between men and women. Women/men might on average be more/less interested in particular fields.

I'm not saying that is true, but social scientists should be open to the idea.

[TotoyDestiny]

topic like this, i always thinking islam women in middle east is too much sexism.

[sqlblindman]

The gender gap report uses a methodology, that makes sense it mathematically impossible to for women to score equal with men. The when researchers are this intentionally dishonest, it is fair to dismiss all their findings outright. I think

[MiranUT]

I've been hearing a lot about getting Japanese women into the work force, but I wonder if this is what they really want. I would think that if they wanted to participate more, being well educated, they'd find a way - and indeed some have. But seeing the two income trap that started in the USA in the '70's, reform should include allowances for a parent to stay home and raise children. When I ask young Japanese women their dreams for the future, they overwhelmingly answer: have and raise children.