International Women's Day in March 8

[Paris333]

Regarding the latest attacks on women by Swiss citizens in Thailand, I would like to remind that (tomorrow) on March 8 is International Women's Day.
Source:
https://www.internationalwomensday.com/

 

Female elected officials are disproportionately exposed to violence. According to an anonymous survey of 2,424 women elected to local, intermediate and regional governments carried out by the European Council of Municipalities and Regions, 32 percent of respondents experienced violence over the course of their careers. Alarmingly only 28 percent among them reported these incidents, highlighting the vulnerability of women in these positions and the lack of support for those who are targeted.
https://www.politico.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/06/Women-In-Politics-Infographic-2023-2.pdf

 

 

[Paris333]

The road to gender parity in the workplace is still a long one. If things continue at the current pace, it will take more than 50 years to close the average wage gap between women and men in all OECD countries. This emerges, among other things, from the current “ Women in Work Index” from the management consultancy PwC.

However, Luxembourg, Iceland and Slovenia lead the list with a score of around 80 out of 100 points. The index calculates a weighted average of five indicators, including the female employment rate, the proportion of full-time employees, the unemployment rate and gender pay equality.

Source:(page 7)

https://www.pwc.co.uk/economic-services/assets/women-in-work-24.pdf
I agree with the rating of States but......yes to equality but with equal work and not "I will perform" doing the "Palestinian" and "you" ladies "perform" the "American" light.
A second remark is that from the European Union countries like Hungary, and Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia are omitted.

 

Edited March 7 by Paris333

[jak2002003]

Come on. Where are the posters saying......why do they have to have a women's days..because we don't have a men's day.

 

Why do women want special treatment and more rights than men?  Haha

[Paris333]

On November 19, International Men’s Day celebrates worldwide the positive value men bring to the world, their families and communities.

Source:

https://internationalmensday.com/

[Paris333]

Europe Gender Equality Index

Source:

https://eige.europa.eu/gender-equality-index/2023/compare-countries/index/bar

As already written, the index is not really meaningful. Also partly because you cannot compare poor, sometimes violent developing countries that are actually dictatorships (e.g. Rwanda) with rich western states.

In my opinion, the EU's Gender Equality Index is much better, where reasonably comparable countries are compared. 

Furthermore many indicators are showing many aspects of our current life.

 If women do worse than men in a category, this leads to relegation, but if men do worse than women, that is not a problem. “Hence, the index rewards countries that reach the point where outcomes for women equal those for men, but it neither rewards nor penalizes cases in which women are outperforming men in particular indicators in some countries. Thus, a country that has higher enrollment for girls rather than boys in secondary school will score equal to a country where boys' and girls' enrollment is the same.”