The World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2009 has ranked Japan as being the developed nation with the least amount of gender equality, ranking it below such nations as China in a report which claims to “assess countries on how well they are dividing their resources and opportunities among their male and female populations.”
The rest of the report throws up some odd rankings…
1. Iceland
2. Finland
3. Norway
4. Sweden
5. New Zealand
6. South Africa
7. Denmark
8. Ireland
9. Philippines
10. Lesotho
11. Netherlands
12. Germany
13. Switzerland
14. Latvia
15. United Kingdom
16. Sri Lanka
17. Spain
18. France
19. Trinidad & Tobago
20. Australia
Scores range from 0 to 1, and “can roughly be interpreted as the percentage of the gender gap which has been closed.” The full report can be examined on the World Economic Forum’s site.
The presence of Scandinavian countries at the top of the list should surprise nobody, but a ranking of sixth for the country with some of the highest rates of sexual violence against women in the world immediately calls into question the criteria used.
Not even making the top 20, the US placed 31st and Canada 25th.
Japan’s score has improved 25 places to 75th on list since 2008, but it is still ranked lowest amongst all major developed nations by a substantial margin.
Even China managed to place 60th, despite being a nation where in some rural areas women are still bought and sold by marriage brokers, and where factory owners openly boast of preferring female employees as being more tractable.
The report is also scathing of other Asian nations, with Islamic countries unsurprisingly dominating the lowest levels of the ranking as hard as they dominate their female populace.
However, Singapore manages only 83rd place, and South Korea only manages 115th, barely above the likes of Iran and Saudi Arabia. Not far in fact from Yemen, placed dead last at 134th.
A report which manages to produce such questionable rankings certainly deserves to be treated with scepticism…
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Wait, am I missing something?
Last time I checked men did better in every job out there, so it's only natural that men are worth more than women in current society, and especially considering that the world is overpopulated right now, so the main use of a woman (making children) has lost it's importance.
Gender equality is the modern religion, it's bullshit based on flawed concepts and ideologies.
Maybe you should check again, asshole.
He never pointed out what the "flaws" in all religions are.
-1
Equality is also derived from order, stablity, religion, and cultural origins. IF the scandivanian tradition was to rape and pillage then how the hell did they get to the top?
Simple. They kicked themselves in the ass to change..and size doesn't matter if the whole country urges to change.
Whatever the reason they might have. Change is something that can be done nationally.
equality is just a word from Latin
not From English.
LoL
I take it you are refering to the Vikings when you talk about our tradition of rape and pillage? Bear in mind that Finland didn't even have Vikings, and I don't think there were many of them in Sweden either. It was mostly a Norwegian and Danish thing, and Iceland largely consists of decendants from Norwegian and Danish Vikings, so yeah. However, an important misinterpretation by the rest of the world that I'd like to clarify; Not all of us to be Vikings, and not all of the Vikings used to go on voyages, raping and pillaging. I otherwise agree with your statement though. :-) Personally, I'm named after a Norwegian Viking King, which I do admit I think is kinda cool. ^^
*used to be Vikings*
And not a word on WHAT gender EXACTLY prevails in quantity. Male? Female?
No suprise that all the scandinavian countries are in the top ten because women seem to have more rights than men here -.-
like some people said above me, women pretty much have more rights than men here in Scandinavia...
YAY AUSTRALIA... even though 20th... still kicks like 100 other countries...
Malaysia is 101st.
>o<
I can understand why China is ranked above Japan.
Japan represents the old, traditional China where women are considered nothing else than furniture, along with nations like Taiwan and South korea, who are also heavily influenced by the feudal Chinese Culture. China itself was also like this before the Communist Revolution, just watch movies like "The Red Latern" about wealthy men and their bunch of concubines etc.
China is ranked above Japan because of Communism, where Gender Equality is enforced by a dictatorship. Everyone has to work in a communist system - no exceptions. So women will of course gain power and rights through their financial contributions in the family.
Also, even Mao himself said back then, that 'Women shall bear the other half of the heaven'. So it's nothing to wonder about.
In fact, Chinese women in general are pretty bossy and non-traditional nowadays. There are only either dominant tsundere, expierienced amazones or caring onee-sama types of women in China. No submissive moe-blobs like in more traditional asian countries.
You, sir, are fucking right.
Long live China.
long live the CCP.
Long live Communism
Long live Socialism.
Yet the moe blobs are desired. As the saying goes, American salary, Chinese cook...
Wow i live in Latvia dint know my country is ranked so high xD
Lol lost 4 places :D
Eh. It's not about the rate of sexual violence, but how it is handled by authority. So a surprise that the US, where rape is considered a "pre-existing condition" for insurance purposes (http://huffpostfund.org/stories/2009/10/rape-victims-choice-risk-aids-or-health-insurance), manages the top 100.
Damn... I'm surprised my country (Latvia) made it into the top. Guess things ain't as bad as they seem (at least in this regard).
Utter bullshit
I live in Finland, and I must say that it deserves the second place. Equality is greatly valued here, almost to the point where it's annoying.
That's because you have Feminazi
in your country .
Nordic countries ftw. And South Africa. wth. There's some weird ass countries in the top 20. But I guess people should first check where the numbers come from before interpreting them the way the want to.
Quite funny to think that these white Asians have something in common w/c are very significant just like in this case. In Japan, women are never treated as equal to men, mostly they are treated as a sex figure. That also goes to S. Korea except the sex part. And also to China except the sex part too.
Mind the gap.
>>Singapore
>>83
LOL
Notice that as gender equality increases birth rate declines...
Wrong
Notice how Philippines got up there, 12th highest birth rate in the world.
And I doubt that the countries under it have higher birthrates.
Finland is second because here women are more equal then men these days :D
Sri Lanka? Really?
Why am I not surprised that the Philippines is in the list?
because it is obvious. Duh!
Had to throw in another Anti-China comment, eh, Sankaku Complex?
Had to throw in another The Truth of China comment, eh, Sankaku Complex?
fixed
Fuck yeah Iceland.
Whos that in the picture?
I didn't see this coming, that we finns are in 2nd place. Because in some professions, it's not even rare that women have about 15% lower salary than men (the difference used to be about 20% so we have improved a little, but still...)
where the hell is Indonesia?
no wonder there's so many feminist
you got a problem w/ that, buddy?!!! >:-(
yes.
eat your Braindead Brain.
you Misandry Woman .
Wheres Canada?
My thoughts exactly. Canada does not have huge gender gap issues, and has improved in that regard over the years. At the very least, Canada should be 15, not 25.
But given that South Africa is 6, I have a strong feeling that the methods used to gain such statistics are very strange.
I stop caring about the gender gap along time ago. mainly because its waste of energy to complain about. So what if women have more unfair restrictions than men. Men have unfair restrictions to be lazy. You only have one life, every human being has a right to be able to freely choose whatever they desire even if it means stealing and killing. Its there choice, and no person should tell them they can't do this and that. Its your own rights, not the government or society pressures, as a animal and human to live freely. when I look at Eskimo tribes I never seen so much freedom and equality in my life. Mainly because its to cold to be bullshitting around on petty issues such as race and gender. Seriously who cares if someone tells you cant do something because you're a woman, tell them to go fuck themselves and do it anyways.
Scandinavia is the best place to live in the world even if you are male.
Scandinavia is the sinkhole
of Misandry Army .
it's where I want to live!
. . . but I'm stuck in Fattsville XD
Ufffff.... nº 17 and OVER France, this is a bit good. My country is not really popular when it comes to equality (mostly in salaries)
Interesting, NZ on top of AUS....
They should be on par
FILIPINO STRONG!
I dont find it strange at all that the US is way far down on the list. In all the office jobs I have had alot of the females are given raises (or just hired) because of cuteness. Management even jokes about it like its funny.
Its all about the bribe.
Not to say that most of them are not totally capable. But to be honest in the last place I worked I saw a (cute) blond haired blue eyed boy loose on a promotion to a (cute) blond haired blue eyed girl. Thats ok. But the boy had demonstrated total competence in the area being hired for. As a matter of fact he did that job for fun in his off time at work, thus had more experience (and motivation). Plus he studied at the same school as her at the same time and had higher scores in the same subjects. The girl had just walked in off the street with no experience except school, batty eyelashes, and a cute body.
Philippines in the top 10. While this seems like a breath of fresh air. Sadly, most filipinos still treat this pessimistically. They really hate their own country T_T
To those most filipinos. It's gender equality not unemployment or morality rates.
Because feminism isn't TOTALLY a countercultural movement and feminists are TOTALLY out to get Japan as their primary interest and focus. Nope, feminists don't care about worldwide matters, they're busy being weeaboos like us and focusing their lives around Japan related issues and politics.
This is just like how all environmentalists are out to get Japan for whaling, of course.
Basically anyone who likes nature or animals at all clearly spends all of their time plotting against Japan, just like the feminists. They don't have anything better to do like eat their veggies or pet their cat.
I'm sure Merzbow is in on it too and a traitor to Japanese people.
That's right, women control money and society in a government run by men[/] and corporations run by men.
Good thinking there. You totally don't sound like a nutball.
Gotta love it when people suspect a minority of a conspiracy instead of the majority, like Jews, Freemasons, "Gay mafia" and ect.
wake up dude.
feminism and misandry are the same.
now i know this survey probably hits japan the most when it comes to women and not getting work becouse they have a child or lose their job becouse of that.
But i certainly hope this surveys doesn't think that drawn hentai actualy does anything unrespectfull to women,becouse then this survey is pretty wrong.
Don't worry, EN will be sure to interpret these results in whatever way best supports their position. They're FAR past bothering with minor details like "factuality".
Iceland eh...? Doubt about that, but it's good to live in Finland :D
Tsk, you got lucky and beat us Norwegians by one place now, but that could change. However, Iceland has alot of roots from Norway, so we indirectly beat you. ;D Iceland and Norway unite! And we(Sweden and Denmark too) can understand each other alot too, so we're like good nabours. None of these 4 countries understand Finnish though. Actually, it's one of the most incomprehensible languages there is for us. Probably due to all the casuses (is that waht it's called in english?) in your language, and stuff like that. You have like what? 21? 24? We have none.....but we still love you all the same offcourse. ;-)
I love you Finland.
No wonder that you do, this happens to be almost perfect country.
-Proud Finnish anon
Country that discriminates males is a perfect country in your opinion? That's what happens when feminists win... We must fight those vicious monsters!! No mercy! >:D
*snerk* you're confusing feminists with terrorist!feminists, buddy. Real feminists just want everyone equal, period.
it's the terrorist types that want to crush men.
Feminist are just puppets.
We must fight against the ones who funded them.
THOSE DAMN ROCKEFELLERS!
FUCK THE NWO!!!
Nordic women are more 'equal' than men, that's why they get all the 1st place.
And South Africa? It seems they equally rape men too...
Ok, I fail, I didn't read the whole thing at first.
But my first statement stands true.
As an anthropologist in the field of Japan, I have to say that even if these findings are true, the great majority of women in Japan are fairly accepting of this.
Many of the studies I have read have had women questioning why women in America are so "selfish" (amaeru) or demand so much equality to men.
On the other hand, in Japan, men are expressing their views of how younger women in Japan are showing their own side of selfishness and demands.
Typically, the females are enjoying themselves as they are and not wanting to delve into the male affairs.
This does not include the small amount of professional female work group, but those numbers are still quite insignificant, even if you consider the growth in this field.
I wouldn't be surprised at the survey results, whatever their criteria be, but this doesn't exactly represent the contentment of the women in their society.
That's the feeling I had.
As an Australian, kind of embarrasing that New Zealand beat us by 15 spots. It always sucks to lose to New Zealand.
Eh, there's still something like an average 10-12% gender pay gap here in NZ. But we have had Female heads of state (PM, Governor General), and of major companies). There's no glass ceiling for types of jobs.
But it is true. If you look at all the policies offered by both countries, New Zealand is by far a more progressive country, even if it is smaller and less well off.
yay i am from trinidad :D
i feel special ^_^
Perhaps this is the reason women are so preoccupied with money? living costs are high enough there and being paid slave wages combined with unfair pay?
One of the main points really. Even in developed countries, there are glass ceilings for females, especially in terms of wages. Fact is, males are paid more than females. Men should stop being so bitter about the "all women are money hungering whores"; we should look at it in terms of it being a societal issue.
Anon 09:41, that's a good point. I actually never even thought about that, I admit.....seems to me that the "all women are money hungering whores" problem isn't prominent in all countrys though. in Japan however, it seems to have been taken to the extreme, but if this poll is right, it may have to do with how they are being discriminated over there....Women chosing men over money instead of looks and personality, women being treated unequally, and the population declining due to so few actually marrying, and actually having time to have children(due to how focused on career they are over there)....Japan's development looks grim indeed...
best way to calculate the pay,is to calculate how much energy each person needs.
And since men use and need more energy to do things(more food),they get paid more.
But why wouldn't there be a women who needed more energy,but this all together would be probably impossible to do,since it's too much work to find out such information.
shure pay them equaly but if the men pays get lowered to be the same as women that would not be a better solution.
Shurely capitalistic people would rather reduce the pays then increase them all together.
It would be nice if all could be paid equaly,but there is always this capitalistic views that some need to be payed more and others not.
Just pay them equally, problem solved.
If you're dealing with wages, there's a glass ceiling. Period. If Microsoft was owned by a woman instead of Bill Gates, do you think that she would be limited by her gender in her ability to generate an income? The glass ceiling that exists is the difference between working for someone else and working for yourself.
I didn't think South Korea would rank so low, North maybe but South?
In Korea, the women are even more boxed in by the female role than Japanese women. You have to behave like the perfect, traditional women. You pretty much can't even smoke in public because you will be seen as some indecent slut.
That's harsh, I was dumbfounded since both my parents are from Korea and they act nothing like that, glad they moved over in the US when they had the chance
Maybe they moved exactly because they're not like that?
Iceland? I guess any place they let bjork live must be a pretty forgiving place
If you peruse their policies, it is an amazingly well run country. They have great policies for the environment, their citizens, benefits, etc.
Indeed. For instance, here in Norway, we don't pay crazy ammounts of money for higher studies (College). The Government pays most of that for us. ;-) Our parents don't need to loan us all their money, we are fine on our own. And as for living expenses when being a student, we can get a student-loan easily from the Government, and if we pass exams, 40% of the loan is cut, since they want us to educate and be useful to society. ^^ Also, we don't have to pay for basic health insurance. If you get in an accident, and get badly injured, the Hospital will fix you up free of charge even if you don't have a single penny, if it is needed to save you, or prevent you from being crippled. Let me just point out that Sweden doesn't have this though. they have to pay. ;D So Iceland/Norway > Sweden. ;D I can't speak for Finland though, I don't know how they have it.
Well, in Sweden you can expect to pay a extremely small token sum($10-30 depending on county) for treatment in the emergency ward, and you're able to cover that with social services if you don't have a job.
Norway, of course, has its oil. It's no surprise it can throw money at its citizens. Hence, no surprise that it can fund all this.
lol at the tag Islam. O_o what does it have to do with this?
All the bottom nations are Islamic.
Thanks to Agnes.
Yea, shouldn't Equality Now be working more towards things like this rather than being so stubborn about completely unrelated things such as anime and eroges? Geez, how much money and effort have they wasted on that already?
there isn't any money wasted! since all of it is in their pockets by now
No USA huh, guess feminist movement might have worked,
though most bisexual girls grils still wished they were boys.
I like the sound of girls grils.
pardon my grammar ignore the second "girl".
There is only one "girls" there.. o.o
OBJECTION! There is only one girls in USA.
SUSTAINED! For being utterly wrong, yet fittingly funny
Failure to correct failure. :V
WRONG! There is one "girls" and one "grils" in the original comment.
Iceland? Really?
Fuck yeah Norway
Fuck yeah Iceland!
everybody knows females are good only for kitchen and bedroom, stupid ranking.
Machochistic bastards that treat women as objects, and give them no respect like you really piss me off! While I hate extremist feminist bitches like Equality Now, you piss me off just as much! Discrimination of any gender in general sucks.
why u feed the troll :<
just ignore it, like the one above
"Iceland? Really?"
Surprised? I'm not. We Scandinavians are nice to our women, and treat them with respect, yet the ladies aren't money grubbing bitches like so many in japan. :-) I'm Norwegian myself.
can I move over there? I'm so tired of the "sammich" jokes here in the US . . .
Yes really though i hate to admit it
Here in Iceland though the feminist movement is ignored mostly as both genders see the feminist movement more as a female supremacy group more than a equal rights group.
And we don't care what background a person has it's more of can she get the job done; I mean we have a lesbian prime minister.
Holy shit!
Quoted For Great Truth! Someone get this person a dozen Internets!
Why the fuck doesn't the rest of the Developed World think the same way as this?!? Why do we let those groups run amok like they do?
Indeed. Why? man, I'm glad I live in Norway. ^^ Oh,and I have no idea why my comment under this one ended up so far down.
We had to learn it the hard way;
In Iceland the feminist movement started a political party, The Woman´s List.
The party made it into Alþingi(the icelantic Parliament.) with a few seats but when the female voters started bringing there problems to the party it was reveled that the party was only going to fight for women´s rights for the upper classes.
This is the reason that both genders look down on feminism in Iceland.
Hate to say this but in most countries a feminist group is or has been needed. Let's take Sweden for example, in 1928 feminist groups fought for equal rights and got something pretty important throught. Female's were allowed to vote in elections.
Some contries where equality hasn't gone as far as sweden actually do need a feminist movement. We tend to take equal rights for granted.
And besides. not all feminist groups are militant, lesbians or hate men. they just want a longer time off after child birth for example, or the same salory for the same job as a male.
Ohhh I'm from Iceland.
You have Chespirito as you avatar! Cool!
Iceland, really why not?
You were thinking the US or something... pfft... Iceland is of Scandinavian tradition and as a smaller country able to achieve better equality.
fuck with europeans ugly race with hairies bodies like monkeys
the poorer a country is the more equality there is.
it's because women have to work vs women can choose not to work.
what do u call equality? women working just as hard as men because they must? then poverty naturally leads to equality.
lets make europe just as poor as america! we should start borrowing the same crazy amounts they have and never pay 1 cent back (and cause an economic collapse, just like america).
o wait we Europeans are actually responsible people, when compared to America.
Why even comment if you're too lazy to understand?
Anyway; http://www.weforum.org/pdf/gendergap/report2009.pdf should cast some light on what the report is and isn't and why developing countries can rank higher than industrialized.
"There are three basic concepts underlying the Global
Gender Gap Index. First, it focuses on measuring gaps
rather than levels. Second, it captures gaps in outcome
variables rather than gaps in means or input variables.
Third, it ranks countries according to gender equality
rather than women’s empowerment."
Hahaha you should see britain then, Gordon brown borrows none stop as if it's the only way to get money. We're paying more on interest of loans than we are on schools or the NHS (one of those anyway) thanks to that dumb fat bastard. Money down the drain to repay other people cos he spends all he can, then borrows to spend more and when there's another problem he'll borrow and spend again.
@ Downvoted anonymous saying europeans are responsible with money.
Greece.
What the hell does any of that have to do with the article?
Sorry, I dont fully understand what this survey/report is. Too lazy to click link and go to the direct result but Im understanding that this was a ranking of equal distribution of resources between the male/female population in the world? Is that right? If so, this list is fair from accurate with South Africa up there...
Or is it a ranking of male/female disparity in population?
And is it Scepticism or Skepticism...?
Arrigato Gousaimazu
That doesn't make any sense, if that were true that most of the Islamic nations and African nations would be up at the top not at the bottom.
Also technically the EU or European Union would be the richest not the poorest. Which probably is why they are at the top of the list.
Another thing South Africa is one the richest areas of Africa. So that totally devotes your whole statement AGAIN.
Another point would be how much of this is based on population as in China's example the population is largely male. Females probably bridge the gap because they are in limited supply able to become married to those who can afford them, pamper them, or promote them.