World Economic Forum releases Global Gender Gap report
World Economic Forum releases Global Gender Gap report
I haven’t yet gone through all of this report (there is a lot of data and I did not have the time today to comb through it). However, at a quick glance, the top 20 ranking of “Most Equal” countries according to the report:
- Iceland
- Norway
- Finland
- Sweden
- Ireland
- New Zealand
- Denmark
- Philippines
- Lesotho
- Switzerland
- Germany
- Spain
- Belgium
- South Africa
- Netherlands
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Canada
- Latvia
- Cuba
However, I should point out that these reports confound me. While they provide some valuable data, they do not involve any kind of analysis about the performances in question.
I suppose it could be said that the reports themselves provide hard, objective data and it should be the job of media to ask the questions. However, we know that’s not how it works. Western media will use the rankings to begin the self congratulatory dance by patting themselves in the back because they are oh so equal (doing local populations a disservice by not addressing local inequality), while, at the same time, they will never interrogate the role of these Western nations in the ingrained inequalities of those countries that ranked poorly.
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