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Oct 27th, 2016 at 10:36am
 
Rwanda ranks 31 places higher than Australia which lags behind a swag of third world countries:

http://reports.weforum.org/global-gender-gap-report-2015/rankings/
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Reply #1 - Oct 27th, 2016 at 10:46am
 
Isn't Rwanda  the place where the Hutu killed loads of Tutsi because they have lighter skin and thinner noses? Cut them up with machetes. Sounds real humanitarian. Another left wing lying poll. NEXT!!
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Reply #2 - Oct 27th, 2016 at 10:53am
 
Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin

poor unforgiven his life must be hell.
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Reply #3 - Oct 27th, 2016 at 11:58am
 
According to who?  Why would Women, with all their natural advantages, want equality with we knuckle-dragging neanderthals called Men?  Who would want to step down that far?  Roll Eyes
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Reply #4 - Oct 27th, 2016 at 12:17pm
 
Wait, there's more:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-27/australia-falling-behind-other-oecd-countr...

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Australia falling behind in gender pay gap, women's safety and incarceration rates, new report shows

Australia is performing poorly in women's safety and income equality as well as a number of other key social issues compared with other OECD countries, a report by the Community Council for Australia has found.

Key findings:

More than half of Australian women feel unsafe walking alone at night
Australian women are paid 17.3 per cent less than male counterparts
Incarceration rates are rising by 6 per cent a year and are now three times that of Ireland
The NT has one of the highest imprisonment rates in the world and is four times the national average
Suicide rates have increased, by as much as 20 per cent in some states
Australians are donating a lower percentage of their salaries to charities than a decade ago
Australia now give less international aid than most OECD countries
One in five Australians aged 15 to 74 have not completed secondary education
The report is the first of its kind and its authors said it was designed to measure how Australia performs against key values and goals prioritised by more than 60 charity and non-government organisations.

Compared with OECD counterparts, Australia fell short in many of the rankings.

More than half of Australian women surveyed said they did not feel safe walking alone at night — well below the OECD average of 60.6 per cent.

In comparison, nearly 80 per cent of Australian men said they did feel safe walking home.

Council chair Tim Costello said this highlighted an important relationship between men and women and should prompt discussion about the causes.

"We men actually have to have a conversation about why our wives and partners and daughters are actually feeling that," he said.
The report also highlighted the gender pay gap as a major issue.

The council said Australian women were paid 17.3 per cent less than their male counterparts.

Although the employment figures were high compared to other OECD countries, the gap between male and female employment remains.

Mr Costello said more work must be done in guaranteeing Australian women had the same access as men.

"We want values to say gender equality actually is our value and we've got to address pay and safety," he said.

High incarceration rates, education statistics also 'worrying'

The report also highlighted Australia's high incarceration rates, which are rising by 6 per cent a year and are now three times that of Ireland.

In the Northern Territory, they are not only four times higher than the national average, but even higher than the global outlier in incarceration rates, the United States.

According to the report, one in five Australians aged 15–74 did not complete secondary education.


The authors said this was "worrying" given the negative repercussions of poor educational attainment for many people.

The report also found that Australians were volunteering less and sending less money to aid organisations overseas.

But Australia is above average compared to other OECD countries in equality of access to employment, education levels, and business confidence.
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Reply #5 - Oct 27th, 2016 at 12:20pm
 
Unforgiven wrote on Oct 27th, 2016 at 12:17pm:
Wait, there's more:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-27/australia-falling-behind-other-oecd-countr...

Quote:
Australia falling behind in gender pay gap, women's safety and incarceration rates, new report shows

Australia is performing poorly in women's safety and income equality as well as a number of other key social issues compared with other OECD countries, a report by the Community Council for Australia has found.

Key findings:

More than half of Australian women feel unsafe walking alone at night
Australian women are paid 17.3 per cent less than male counterparts
Incarceration rates are rising by 6 per cent a year and are now three times that of Ireland
The NT has one of the highest imprisonment rates in the world and is four times the national average
Suicide rates have increased, by as much as 20 per cent in some states
Australians are donating a lower percentage of their salaries to charities than a decade ago
Australia now give less international aid than most OECD countries
One in five Australians aged 15 to 74 have not completed secondary education
The report is the first of its kind and its authors said it was designed to measure how Australia performs against key values and goals prioritised by more than 60 charity and non-government organisations.

Compared with OECD counterparts, Australia fell short in many of the rankings.

More than half of Australian women surveyed said they did not feel safe walking alone at night — well below the OECD average of 60.6 per cent.

In comparison, nearly 80 per cent of Australian men said they did feel safe walking home.

Council chair Tim Costello said this highlighted an important relationship between men and women and should prompt discussion about the causes.

"We men actually have to have a conversation about why our wives and partners and daughters are actually feeling that," he said.
The report also highlighted the gender pay gap as a major issue.

The council said Australian women were paid 17.3 per cent less than their male counterparts.

Although the employment figures were high compared to other OECD countries, the gap between male and female employment remains.

Mr Costello said more work must be done in guaranteeing Australian women had the same access as men.

"We want values to say gender equality actually is our value and we've got to address pay and safety," he said.

High incarceration rates, education statistics also 'worrying'

The report also highlighted Australia's high incarceration rates, which are rising by 6 per cent a year and are now three times that of Ireland.

In the Northern Territory, they are not only four times higher than the national average, but even higher than the global outlier in incarceration rates, the United States.

According to the report, one in five Australians aged 15–74 did not complete secondary education.


The authors said this was "worrying" given the negative repercussions of poor educational attainment for many people.

The report also found that Australians were volunteering less and sending less money to aid organisations overseas.

But Australia is above average compared to other OECD countries in equality of access to employment, education levels, and business confidence.
Explain why Rwanda came in 6th?
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Re: Australia is 36th on gender equality index
Reply #6 - Oct 27th, 2016 at 12:21pm
 
Unforgiven wrote on Oct 27th, 2016 at 12:17pm:
Incarceration rates are rising by 6 per cent a year and are now three times that of Ireland



You mean those women are actually being made to pay for their crimes? How dastardly.
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Reply #7 - Oct 27th, 2016 at 12:59pm
 

140 Jordan 0.593
141 Iran, Islamic Rep. 0.580
142 Chad 0.580
143 Syria 0.568
144 Pakistan 0.559
145 Yemen 0.484

Notice anything about the countries that come last in this poll.


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Reply #8 - Oct 27th, 2016 at 2:35pm
 
Women are paid for the same amount of work performed. This pay gap in gender is simply a result of women going for employment in lower-paying jobs. If men and women swapped job roles with men, they would not be happy. Then the issue would be about women not feeling safe in the workplace because of the danger involved in the jobs.

Women would not feel safe anywhere, never mind where they walk at night. That is because they represent the weaker part of the population. I can walk around at night and feel safe among walking passed groups of women. People of other demographics, I can handle defending myself in times of need.

Rwanda could not claim to be all that equal in society when their societies like to slaughter people of another ethnic group. I really doubt that the raped women during the civil war of 1995 felt that they were equal to their male counterparts in any way.
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