Women’s Paradise?
Last year, newspapers all over the world noted that among the top 10 countries with the smallest “gender gap,” the only developing country was the Philippines, which came in sixth.
In case you missed the news items last year, the top 10, out of a total of 115 countries, were: Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Germany, the Philippines, New Zealand, Denmark, the United Kingdom and Ireland.
The Gender Gap Index, compiled by the World Economic Forum, was mainly based on a review of female-to-male ratios in four areas: (a) economic participation and opportunity, (b) educational attainment, (c) health and survival and (d) political empowerment. Besides these four areas, the index considered data on maternity and childbearing, education and training, employment and earnings, and basic rights and social institutions.
Given our high ranking, are we now to believe the Philippines is a paradise for women? I visited the World Economic Forum site and downloaded several of the country reports, but never got around to writing about it. Today being International Women’s Day, I thought it’d be a good time to revisit this index.
Read full text from Pinoy Kasi by Michael Tan, Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 7, 2007.
posted by Pinoy RH @ 6:58 PM
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1 Comments:
you should write more about this. i am looking for a womans paradise, or something mentioned about one, and ive now been to 60 pages of google and only this has come up as something other than perfume or things used to make women more pretty and the world a better paradise for men. is there even such thing as an institution or company that provides company and attractive male suitors for sexual gratification for women? is there such a place where a woman can go to an be honoured in her every desire, even if she has to pay for it? id love to know about it if there was.
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