Gender equality report

[Palmares]

It will take 81 years for the worldwide gender gap to close if progress continues at the current rate, according to the latest report by the World Economic Forum (WEF).
Women currently have 60% of the standing of men worldwide - just four percentage points up on 2006 when WEF started the report measuring female economic participation, education, health and political involvement.
A gender gap is not necessarily a measurement of women’s quality of life in general, for example issues like abortion are likely to be excluded, it is about measuring the gap in various sectors of society between men and women.
Not one country has closed its overall gender gap since 2006 but all five of the Nordic countries have closed more than 80% of it and they now sit at the top of the rankings. Iceland (1), Finland (2), Norway (3) and Sweden (4) are now followed by Denmark which rose three places to fifth this year.


http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/oct/28/not-one-country-has-fully-closed-gender-gap-yet-report-shows

And you can view the full report here:

http://www.weforum.org/reports/global-gender-gap-report-2014


Obviously WEF aren't talking about the smashing of patriarchy, but nonetheless, it's interesting to see the progress of liberal feminism.

Any thoughts? I'm particularly interested to hear people's opinions of their own countries' rankings and thus experiences. There does seem to at least be some patterns in the rankings from my brief look at them.

[Illegalitarian]

"If we just wait another three decades it will be better u guys"

liberal feminism lmfao

[Rosa Partizan]

it's really funny how in capitalism, gender equality is measured by wages. Yes, pay gap is a symptom of patriarchy, but closing the pay gap doesn't mean vice versa that gender inequality will disappear, nor will it help to put more women in high positions. In fact, I couldn't care less about female CEOs. It means that they just learned to play by the "male" rules.

[The Disillusionist]

it's really funny how in capitalism, gender equality is measured by wages. Yes, pay gap is a symptom of patriarchy, but closing the pay gap doesn't mean vice versa that gender inequality will disappear, nor will it help to put more women in high positions. In fact, I couldn't care less about female CEOs. It means that they just learned to play by the "male" rules.

I agree, to a point. However, males also have to play by "male" rules to be successful, even if we don't want to. Oppression of women is firmly entrenched within our social structure, but it is not the only aspect of that structure. This is where I think a lot of anarchafeminists fall short, is that they often focus too narrowly on feminism, keeping them from seeing any broader picture. This is not an issue specifically with you, Rosa, I'm just saying.

Second, and this issue is with the article: it is impossible to assign feminist progress to a rated time scale, because these are countries we are talking about, and they will not always respond in the same way, in the same amount of time. Though feminism as an ideology always stays the same, its implementation is a cultural issue that must be dealt with in unique ways for each unique culture, it's not a uniform, mechanical process. And as Rosa says, their uniform measure, equality of income, is hardly an indicator of equal treatment.

[Illegalitarian]

What if women CEO's were paid the same as male CEOs? What if women pilots were paid the same as male pilots? Then what, all of a sudden everything is ok? What about the fact that women are given far less of a chance to advance in their careers due to the fact that they're women? There are career ceilings for women that are just as real and concrete as career ceilings for minorities.

In other words, what does it fucking matter that career women don't make as much as men if women are being kept out of most profitable, easy-access careers to begin with? Which is a debate that almost no one in the mainstream is having.

This liberal feminism can't even make the proper arguments within its own commodity fetishist context