Women Status in Europe and Americas

  Today, we’re going to talk about the social and economic status of women in Europe and America. These two continents would be divided into four parts to be discussed--- Europe, Russia, North America and Latin America.

1. Europe

    According to the latest research on The Gender Gap of World Economic Forum, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Swiss and Denmark accounted the first five places in it.

All these North Europe countries had paid high respect toward women. Especially Iceland, it was the origin of the recent feminism event ”Free the Nipple” and the fairest friendly country for women. Actually, Iceland had put women issue into society in1850s and Iceland women could have voting right at 1915, which was earlier than The United States for five years. Furthermore, Iceland had the first female president in 1980, who was a single mother and had rich experience in politics and she even renewed for three terms and retired in 1996.

  Iceland, one of the happiest countries in the world, deserves us to explore and learn more from the country with ice and fire.

2. Russia

    Although concluded as a part of Europe continent, Russian women do not have the same status as those in North Europe. Because the severe imbalance of men and women’s population, women would try every mean to get men’s attention and be as meek as they could to make men pleased. From 16^th, the Orthodox Church had published a code that ordered women to quiet and follow commands of their husbands. In recent years, things got worse. Many Russian men were alcoholic that they had a bad temper and would abuse their wives. In Russian, the divorce rate had reached to 60% that about a third of Russian children have no fathers and single mothers have to take care of them by themselves. Which is more unfair is that smoking is another habit of Russian men that they had a shorter ages then women, which means that women have to do more job than men because of the health factor. However, the average salary that Russian women got is men’s 65%, which is completely unfair to them.

  In my opinion, there is still a long way for Russian women to fight for their basic right and get respect.

 

3. North America

    According to the latest research on The Gender Gap of World Economic Forum, North America had narrowed down about 75% of political status between men and women and got the 4^th place on the women economic status around the world. However, women’s labor participation in every region of career was 86%, and The United of States account only 50^th in the business management by women’s part. It would be worse to see the political aspect that only 30% of high level of political circle, which still had a lot of improvement to do to catch up the friendly environment that North Europe established to women.

 4. Latin America

    To people’s surprise, there are 8 countries already attained the equality in education and health area between men and women and half of them are from Latin America--- Brazil, Bahamas, Belize and Guyana. There are about 56 female president and more one fifth were from Latin America, and there are three reasons to explain this special phenomenon.

(1.) The social revolution had the same pace with women revolution---

     After WWⅡ, the pace to democratic increased, which led to the instant and simultaneous status change on both women and aboriginals that they had the chances to combine to each other and develop the new political views to win voters’ hearts.

(2.) Legal protections on women’s participation on politics---

    Until now, there are more than 14 countries in Latin America had passed a law which stipulated that women should account for 40% of candidates in any kinds of votes. Thanks to this law, Argentina had beaten The United of States and Canada to get the better ranking in women’s political status in the world and got the 23rd place.

   I think that this research must break many people’ bias on women status connected to the countries’ development that Latin America got higher place than North America area. 

(3.) People expect the new faces---

     Many countries in Latin America had experienced the dictatorial military government and countless democratic government which claim to carry out more new policies. However, voters did not see the actual change and progress that they tried to want someone new. That’s why women become a fresh choice and advantage instead of a barrier in political circle.

 I think that this research must break many people’ bias on women status connected to the countries’ development that Latin America got higher place than North America area.

Now, let's see some videos to make a comparison between women status in Western and Eastern world.

Women status in India: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8A1MNwidzU

Women want you-- The Gender War in Sweden & Iceland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SFeaIMSgiw

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To be continued