DEBATES_Heard of gender segregation, ready?

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TASK 1. Read a) b) and c) pieces  

on gender-equity issues. 

A)  a whirled world of biased coinage

     B) Stubborn bare facts on film industry:

     C)  a trio of eye-opening facts on art:

Discuss them with your partner

Read, below...

A)  a whirled world of biased coinage

A1) work words: 

• 'glass ceiling' - phrase coined in 1984 to mean an invisible barrier to women being promoted beyond middle management. 

• The big threat to women's success in top roles is now the 'glass cliff' (2004) - being promoted into risky, difficult jobs where the chances of failure are higher.

     A2) Where are few women in top roles?

• the lack of women in STEM careers (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) currently cite hostility and isolation among the reasons for this disparity.  

• We are  a far cry from the optimism that ran high at the early years of the XXI century that affirmed the OECD industry had the potential to prevent climate change, fix the economy and break the glass ceiling for women. 

 B) Stubborn bare facts on film industry:

Startled to learn about gender segregation, ready?

• Hidden figures and sociology:    

• Female characters comprise..... GUESS the percentages: 

a) onscreen characters -

a)   ......... % of the global film workforce, 

•  b)  Leadership positions: 

b.1)  ......... % of executives 

b.2)   ......... % of high-level politicians 

  •   c) prestigious professions: 

       c.1) attorneys and judges  (  .........%),                                   

c.2) professors (  .........% ),         

c.3) medical practitioners (  .........%)  

c.4)  with an identifiable STEM job ( .........%)

     C)  a trio of eye-opening facts:

•  women artists: Written out of HIStory?

• women artists THEY make up only 3–5% of major permanent collections in the U.S. and Europe,    

• The top three museums (the British Museum,  the Louvre and MOMA -NY)  have never had female directors. 

• Less than 4% of the artists in the Modern Art section of  MOMA are women, but 76% of the nudes are female.

                B) Stubborn bare facts:____  KEY:

a)   ......... % of the global film workforce,          
a) under 28%

         b.1)  ......... % of executives 
               b1) by a  margin over 14%  

b.2)   ......... % of high-level politicians

        b2)  on the sunshiine of 10%




  c.1) attorneys and judges  (  .........%),   
 c1) less than 8%                                 

c.2) professors (  .........% ),         

           c2)  a mere 7%

c.3) medical practitioners (  .........%)  

        c3)  20%  
c.4)  with an identifiable STEM job ( .........%)

  c4)  a bare 12% 

DATA shows_ EDUCATION_Women in top roles- OLD Spain - 2015

Critical thinking with graphs

TASK.                                                         

 DRAW   THREE    CONCLUSIONS after studying the figures below 

 from EACH of the four   Statistics GRAPHs

 shown below.

        Women Through the Glass Ceiling:   

                      Gender Asymmetries    

TABLE 1. 

TABLE 2. 

TABLE 3. 

                Source: EC (2016) -Catalyst (2015) 

                 Database on women and men in decision making; 

TABLE 4. 

Chart A10.1. Percentage of 25-34 year-olds who have attained tertiary education, by gender (OECD_ 2014)

EXTRA:

Women Through the Glass Ceiling: 

Gender Asymmetries in Wikipedia

Systemic bias  -  The eight major categories of study for maladaptive organizational behavior 

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}

http://www.bulksgo.com/inequality-between-men-and-women/

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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Where the sun rises - sunrises on the east

challenge   

South Korea vs Japan

There are many things to be experienced in South Korea that you'll never experienced in Japan.

Use your notebook to copy the answers.  

write  SK or J on the blanks below 

#1.........   ...........
#2.........   ...........
#3.........   ...........
#4.........   ...........
#5.........   ...........

 #1  .........   ...........

• As some people mentioned, I’ve seen brawls break out in ........, which I’ve never seen happen in ..... (I’m sure it happens, but it’s certainly less frequent).

#2   ............   ............
When you order food in ............  you get unlimited side dishes, which is very nice. In .........., you pay for even the smallest thing.  

#3   ............   .............

• I’ve also seen many people reading books or the newspaper in .......... trains, whereas ..........  are pretty much always on their smartphones. 

• I’ve also seen many people reading books or the newspaper in .......... trains, whereas ..........  are pretty much always on their smartphones.

#4  ..............   ...............

• Smoking indoors in ...........   is still allowed. The odd thing is that there is often no barrier between smoking and non-smoking sections. _From a country that prides itself on its sensitivity and respectfulness towards others, this is shocking and a rather large cultural contradiction_ . 

• I’ve never seen people smoke indoors in ..........

#5 ..............   ...............

• As of late, I’ve been noticing that many people in .........  put their feet on chairs and couches in public places. I see this on an almost daily basis in downtown capital. 

• It's something I’ve never seen in ..........

To get your score, read the text ONCE 

and check your answers  with your partner

                     KEY  with  text              

#1As some people mentioned, I’ve seen brawls break out in Korea, which I’ve never seen happen in Japan (I’m sure it happens, but it’s certainly less frequent).

#2When you order food in Korea you get unlimited side dishes, which is very nice. In Japan, you pay for even the smallest thing.  

#3I’ve also seen many people reading books or the newspaper in Japanese trains, whereas Koreans are pretty much always on their smartphones 

#4Smoking indoors in Japan is still allowed. The odd thing is that there is often no barrier between smoking and non-smoking sections. From a country that prides itself on its sensitivity and respectfulness towards others, this is shocking and a rather large cultural contradiction. I’ve never seen people smoke indoors in Korea. 

#5As of late, I’ve been noticing that many people in Korea put their feet on chairs and couches in public places - something I’ve never seen in Japan. I see this on an almost daily basis in downtown capital.

       2 -shortcut to       KEY        

*KEY    challenge  * 

South Korea  vs   Japan.

 chech  your SK or J  below, please.

• #1  KOREA   JAPAN

• #2  KOREA   JAPAN

• #3  JAPAN   KOREA

• #4  JAPAN   KOREA

• #5  KOREA   JAPAN

two free ends - too friends : infodemics and mind bias

friend or foe?

fiend or friend?

part  1-  Dystopian outcomnes - virus  and infodemics


1.  Did u know:

On February 10, 2018, Fortune reported that: 

• influenza in the United States was killing up to 4,000 Americans a week,  

• likely to far outstrip the rate of deaths in the 2009–2010 season.   

It toted up  throughout the 2017-2018 flu season to: 

•  an estimated 959,000 hospitalizations and 61,099 deaths.

.2.  emergent outbreaks 

Looking at contemporary outbreaks since the mid-20th century, Dr. Peter Daszak, a disease ecologist and the president of Eco Health Alliance , and colleagues found that: 

• the rate of emergent diseases caused by pathogens new to humans has increased significantly with time, even when controlling for progress in diagnosis techniques and surveillance, which could make it only seem like diseases were on the rise. 

• More than 300 new infectious diseases emerged between 1940 and 2004, the study found.

.3.    How to fight hysterics infodemia   

“We’re not just fighting an epidemic; we’re fighting an infodemic”, 

  WHO Director-General Tedros A. Ghebreyesus          

at the Munich Security Conference on Feb 15 2020.        

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30461-X/fulltext




part 2 - People and migrants : mind bias and half-truths

• California has more immigrants than any other state. link

California is home to almost 11 million immigrants—about a quarter of the foreign-born population nationwide in the USA. 

• In 2017, the most current year of data, 27% of California’s population was foreign born, more than double the percentage in the rest of the country.

• most (56%) of those arriving between 2010 and 2017 came from Asia; only 29% came from Latin America. 

• Californians have positive views of immigrants.

Nearly three in four Californians (72%) believe immigrants are a benefit to the state because of their hard work and job skills, compared to nearly one in four (only 23%) who believe they are a burden. 

Multitudes - its alleged father begets a child

From our tradition, the starting point may be the timeline of God promise to Abraham (born in 1813 BCE)

     BE FRUITFUL  and  MULTIPLY.

• ... and patriarch of the 3 religions (Jews, Christians, Muslims).

he was born in Cutha, in Mesopotamia,  Ever-haNahar in Hebrew ("Beyond the River"). 
Abraham was a short time in his journey from Ur of the Chaldees until when he left Haran at age 75 after displeasing the king Nimrod. Nimrod had a strange dream and once again his counsellors interpreted it to mean that as long as Abraham lived, his kingdom would be in danger. 
Waiting, waiting, Abraham spent a number of years in Egypt to escape the famine where he accumulated wealth. 

These years resulted in  taking an Egyptian handmaid who would mother Ishmael...   (thus, the lineage of Arabs :  Ismaelites)

   

part 1   - sheer numbers

The UN’s 2012 Revision of the world population prospects report suggested if we make rapid reductions in family size, then it may still be possible to constrain the global population to 8 billion by 2045.
No projections are set in stone – all are contingent on what extent fertility rates will sway over the next century.

part 2 - People and continents : mindful  truths

Most people always lived in Asia:

•  Today it is 60%  

• two hundred years ago it was 68%.

part  3-   the visual facts  

The population of every country is a very important asset. However, as they say, too much of a thing is harmful, and similarly, if a country is prone to over-population, a great deal of problems result from that.   article

•  Pakistan is in a similar predicament. With the exponential explosion in population in the recent years, the world is suffering a great deal.

             

OUR world.
                   See the cartogram here

part  4-   the educated guess forecast  - give or take ONE million 

Estimates between the years 2020 and 2040 -link

                                        2020      --     2030    --     2040      (in millions) 

Mozambique    28         37         47

Algeria*             43         48         52 

Ethiopia          115       150       188

Nigeria (*)         204       280       314

Iran *                  86         90         94

Vietnam            98        105       109

Philipines        109       126       141

Pakistan*          214      243       270

Indonesia*        279      296       313 

            * Islamic countries 


        Annex:  Should the west go to the shrink?

source:  link

Pinker- The world continues to improve in just about every way.

STEVEN PINKER

Professor in the Department of Psychology 

at Harvard University. He conducts research on language and cognition, writes for publications such as the New York Times, Time and The Atlantic, and is the author of ten books

It may have seemed like the world fell apart in 2016. Steven Pinker is here to tell you it didn’t. -link

“The world continues to improve in just about every way.”

 Dec 22, 2016,

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• Julia Belluz - So 2016 has been an incredibly stressful and violent year from a news standpoint for many people. Do you have any advice for putting it in context?

Steven Pinker

Look at history and data, not headlines. The world continues to improve in just about every way. Extreme poverty, child mortality, illiteracy, and global inequality are at historic lows; vaccinations, basic education, including girls, and democracy are at all-time highs.
War deaths have risen since 2011 because of the Syrian civil war, but are a fraction of the levels of the 1950s through the early 1990s, when megadeath wars and genocides raged all over the world. Colombia’s peace deal marks the end of the last war in the Western Hemisphere, and the last remnant of the Cold War. Homicide rates in the world are falling, and the rate in United States is lower than at any time between 1966 and 2009. Outside of war zones, terrorist deaths are far lower than they were in the heyday of the Weathermen, IRA, and Red Brigades.

• Julia Belluz - One big thing that’s changed since we last spoke is the election of Donald Trump. We now have a president coming in who has said he wouldn’t defend America’s allies in NATO if we were attacked by a foreign power and who has strong links to Russia. His election came after Brexit. These really seem like threats to the global institutions that have likely helped sustain peace in recent years.

Steven Pinker

Several awful things happened in the world’s democracies in 2016, and the election of a mercurial and ignorant president injects a troubling degree of uncertainty into international relations.
But it’s vital to keep cool and identify specific dangers rather than being overcome by a vague apocalyptic gloom. Brexit may be regrettable, but it’s not going to lead to a war between the UK and Germany or France. A closeness to Russia is troubling in many ways, but it may reduce, rather than increase, the chance of a major war (so suggested the eminent peace researcher Nils Petter Gleditsch).
It’s easy to reach for historical analogies and speculate about Russian or Chinese imperial expansion, but as my colleague Graham Allison points out, you must consider the differences between current and past cases, not just similarities, and the differences are substantial.

• Julia Belluz - One of the other alarming aspects of Trump’s rise to power is that he won, in part, by inciting racist tendencies. We know minority groups are afraid that racist people are going to be empowered under Trump, and there's some discussion that there's already been an uptick in racial violence here. Are you concerned about gains in racial equality in the US unraveling?

Steven Pinker

Beware of headlines. And beware of statistics from advocacy organizations whose funding stream depends on stoking fear and outrage — I’ve learned that they can never be taken at face value.
There are reasons to doubt that we’re seeing a big post-Trump rise in hate crimes. Rates of hate crime tend to track rates of overall crime, and there was an uptick of both in 2015, before Trumpism.
Indeed, Trump capitalized on the crime uptick to sow panic about the state of the nation, and progressives foolishly ceded the issue to him. Moment-by-moment analyses of Google searches by the data scientist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz show that Islamophobia strongly tracks incidents of terrorism with Muslim perpetrators. So hate crimes will probably depend more on overall crime rates and — in the case of Islamophobic hate crimes — on terrorist attacks than on a general atmosphere created by Trump.
More generally, the worldwide, decades-long current toward racial tolerance is too strong to be undone by one man. Public opinion polls in almost every country show steady declines in racial and religious prejudice­ — and more importantly for the future, that younger cohorts are less prejudiced than older ones. As my own cohort of baby boomers (who helped elect Trump) dies off and is replaced by millennials (who rejected him in droves), the world will become more tolerant.
It’s not just that people are increasingly disagreeing with intolerant statements when asked by pollsters, which could be driven by a taboo against explicit racism. Stephens-Davidowitz has shown that Google searches for racist jokes and organizations are sensitive indicators of private racism. They have declined steadily over the past dozen years, and they are more popular in older than younger cohorts.

• Julia Belluz -Are you optimistic about the future?

Steven Pinker

I’ve never been “optimistic” in the sense of just seeing the glass as half-full — only in the sense of looking at trend lines rather than headlines. It’s irrational both to ignore good developments and to put a happy face on bad ones.
As it happens, most global, long-term trends have been positive. As for the future, I like the distinction drawn by the economist Paul Romer between complacent optimism, the feeling of a child waiting for presents, and conditional optimism, the feeling of a child who wants a treehouse and realizes that if he gets some wood and nails and persuades other kids to help him, he can build one. I am not complacently optimistic about the future; I am conditionally optimistic.

Read more with Pinker here.