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Monday, March 9, 2020

wsh_501 -hard to be female STATS


https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/01/gender-girl-statistics-global/ 


Cultural note. 
Explain Mao’s Quotation.

"Women hold up half the sky." - Mao Zedong


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/07/world/asia/holding-up-half-the-sky.html?_r=0 




TASK. Find how close you are to world figures



Hard to be female {stats}


1 POLITICS

Women have led their countries

......% countries worldwide (2017)
......                                 (2006)

......Parlamentary members (MP) (2017)
......                                          (1990)


2. EDUCATION

...... % GIRLS attend secondary school
...... %  BOYS  attend secondary school

and in west Africa:
.....  % GIRLS attend secondary school



3. nth case of death due to SUICIDE
Girls aged 11-18
1rst -                  
2nd -                   
.........                  
 -20th                    


4. TEEN PREGNANCY
......  % of all global births



5. GLASS CEILING with a woman on TOP


  • ...... % world companies                                 
  • ......% 500 TOP companies on earnings --2016
  • ......% 500 TOP companies - 1995                  





 Update  - US Women in 2019



  US Female Breadwinners and  Barriers

link               

room for improvement! (rate 0.5% yearly)





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