This article illustrates one of the grand ironies of western feminism that has long fascinated me.
Western feminists are the least traditional and most aggressively progressive feminists on Earth, and their societies have largely catered to their interests and bent over backward to aid their cause.
Meanwhile, nations like Jamaica (a land which I can tell you is FAR from progressive in the western sense and FAR more traditional than most typical western women would ever be comfortable with) manage to somehow surpass the western world when it comes to many metrics of female progress (ex: a female head of state, more females in managerial positions, etc, etc). Not far behind Jamaica are such bastions of gender egalitarianism and progressive feminism like Colombia and the Philippines, both of which are far ahead of nations like Canada and the UK when it comes to the placement of women in managerial positions and, in the case of the Filipinos, the placement of women at highest tiers of government (there have been 2 female presidents of the Philippines, while the USA and Canada have a grand total of one female head of state between them).
It would be one thing if modern strains of western feminism (with their strong emphasis on the undermining of traditional gender roles, the inherent "sameness" of the sexes, and occasionally downright anti-male attitudes) were actually doing a better job at securing progress for women. It would seem, however, that they're not even managing to do that. Societies in which traditional gender roles are still held up as the normal ideal, patriarchal attitudes are in the mainstream, and hypermasculinity is not only tolerated but widely accepted/expected are somehow managing to do just as well in many cases, if not better.
And there's the irony: these traditional, conservative societies are in many ways more progressive than their "progressive" western counterparts.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonk...e-a-woman/
Western feminists are the least traditional and most aggressively progressive feminists on Earth, and their societies have largely catered to their interests and bent over backward to aid their cause.
Meanwhile, nations like Jamaica (a land which I can tell you is FAR from progressive in the western sense and FAR more traditional than most typical western women would ever be comfortable with) manage to somehow surpass the western world when it comes to many metrics of female progress (ex: a female head of state, more females in managerial positions, etc, etc). Not far behind Jamaica are such bastions of gender egalitarianism and progressive feminism like Colombia and the Philippines, both of which are far ahead of nations like Canada and the UK when it comes to the placement of women in managerial positions and, in the case of the Filipinos, the placement of women at highest tiers of government (there have been 2 female presidents of the Philippines, while the USA and Canada have a grand total of one female head of state between them).
It would be one thing if modern strains of western feminism (with their strong emphasis on the undermining of traditional gender roles, the inherent "sameness" of the sexes, and occasionally downright anti-male attitudes) were actually doing a better job at securing progress for women. It would seem, however, that they're not even managing to do that. Societies in which traditional gender roles are still held up as the normal ideal, patriarchal attitudes are in the mainstream, and hypermasculinity is not only tolerated but widely accepted/expected are somehow managing to do just as well in many cases, if not better.
And there's the irony: these traditional, conservative societies are in many ways more progressive than their "progressive" western counterparts.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonk...e-a-woman/
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Nearly a third of all businesses around the world are now owned or managed by women, according to a new study by the International Labor Organization (ILO). That number is hardly something to celebrate—for reasons I will discuss in a second—but there are a few (OK, only three) parts of the globe that appear to be somewhat (yes, only somewhat) exemplary in this regard.
Jamaica, Colombia, and Saint Lucia.
No other country in the world holds a candle to Jamaica, where just under 60 percent of all managers are women, according to the ILO. Colombia, the country with the second highest percentage of female bosses, manages 53 percent. In Saint Lucia, which is third among the 106 countries for which the ILO found data, the number is 52.3 percent.
Beyond those three, there is the Philippines, where just under 48 percent of all managers are female, Panama, where just over 47 percent are female, and Belarus, where the number is 46 percent. In the United States, which is number 15 on the list, about 43 percent of all managers are female; In Canada, the 43rd ranked, it's 36 percent; and in the United Kingdom, the 49th ranked, it's 34 percent.
At the very bottom of the list are Yemen, Pakistan and Algeria, where only 4.9 percent, 3 percent, and 2.1 percent of bosses are women, respectively. The rest of the bottom ten is occupied by countries in or around the Middle East and North Africa.
Here are the percentages for all 106 countries the ILO included:
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Some of this should be seen as encouraging news. Women, after all, hold a much larger percentage of jobs globally (roughly 40 percent) than they have in the past. They represent roughly a quarter of all employers around the world, when you discount the Middle East and North Africa, where they account for only about 6 percent. And the number of female managers is soaring: In nearly 80 percent of countries, the proportion of female managers has grown since 2000, and in 23 countries the increase was by 7 percent of more.
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