Bombing Iranian school girls to increase the comparative amount of educated women in the United states is the exact kind of 5D chess I’ve come to expect of Americans.
Because in the USA it’s discouraged for girls/women to study STEM because it hurts men’s egos. In the 80s the ads for home computers, when home computing started to really take off, tended to focus on how it was a boy activity.
I’m sure the US will “fix” this “problem” ASAP. See also Afghanistan and Iraq.
If I was a woman trapped in Iranian culture I’d want to go get an education too.
First female fields medal (basically nobel prize for mathematics, huge deal) winner was Iranian too.
Congratulations on finding the Gender-equality paradox rabbit hole!
The only group I know of trying to quantify womens rights internationally as a whole is here: https://giwps.georgetown.edu/the-index/
Iran ranks 140 / 181 which isn’t great, but could be a lot worse. Education is a factor, but Iran loses points elsewhere. The most notable item related to this headline is probably employment percentage which sits at 14.8% (Highest in group is Qatar at 65.5%). For negative impact, the reported stats on domestic violence and related items are worth reading into.
Qatar is dubious however, as of their 2.6m population only 300k are citizens and the rest are indentured migrant workers, so naturally there will be a lot of women in “employment”.
Qatar is probably creating some interesting demographics. It is vaguely implied that data is restricted to citizens but can’t find where that’s directly clarified so who knows. You could compare outside the group with Denmark (The overall #1 spot) at 77.9% or the United States at 71.2% and China at 57.7%.
What’s it like in Qatar if you remove “domestic workers”?
Iranians are some pretty smart people in my experience. Long history of thinkers, I suppose.
Given the gender-equality paradox, this might not be as good a thing as it seems.
Could you expand on that a bit? This gender equality paradox is new to me, and I read it’s a disputed finding on worse gender inequalities in nations that are typically perceived as more progressive when it comes to gender equality. Leaving the dispute aside for a bit and assuming this is a straight up observed scientific that’s actually real, I don’t really see how a larger than expected gender inequality in, say, Denmark, makes higher rates of education in another nation a bad thing. Not saying it isn’t, just saying this line of thinking is new to me, and I’m not able to find the link just yet.
I’m gonna guess and say that fewer women are in higher education, and the ones that are are progidies. Therefore higher graduation rates for women.
First of all, why guess?
Secondly, I don’t see the link with gender inequality in Denmark.
Not sure why the immediate defense, but I’m just guessing why women have a higher graduation rate. Idk.
Ah sorry, I thought you were the gender equality paradox guy I replied to. I’m quite keen to learn a bit more about it.
Ok, the women stat is neat, great, & impressive, but we all know that.
I was gonna bitch that the per capita stat is bs bcs demography differences (way more boombers per capita in USA & way more young ppl in Iran) & they put it in the title just for clicks -
but that doesn’t account for all the difference (1 in 346 Iranians vs 1,675 USAians with a doctorate)edit: oh, they are comparing how many are currently actively studying for a doctorate, not how many have attained them.USA:
Iran:
if it wasn’t already a reason for fear, those Christians would be absolutely horrified and in disbelief of such power
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Don’t forget that Iran / Persia is ancient civilization, way older than modern western mainstream.
Ok.
What’s your point?
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Mahsa Amini.
Mostly because they gotta wear a hat.
Keeps the thoughts from evaporating.
