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You just ignored the study's definitions for all the terms and then claimed them false by supplying your own which is pretty classic confirmation bias. Just for

• sleepysysadmin 8y ago
  Lets say Canada passes legislation saying >50% of MPs must be women. That would be an extreme abuse of democracy. If only 50% of ridings have a woman running. It would mean those riding automatically go to those women. Those ridings don't get to vote. So yes, political empowerment only goes so in far as women having the right to run. Not confirmation bias; I simply believe in democracy. I also note you never commented on the other points which were much more egregious and clearly make things appear much worse than it actually is. I also go back and recalculate Canada's score. We are the MOST equal country surpassing Iceland and Rwanda by gigantic strides it also makes the study look pretty stupid because our equality is perfect and yet we have a large wage gap still. This is because the gender wage gap isn't discrimination. It's entirely based on decisions made by women.
  • rhcom2 8y ago
    I'm trying to tell you that for each of your criticisms of the study you ignored their definitions and evidence and applied your own based on your feelings. For another example, 'Health and Survival' was not based on if women lived longer than men but "an estimate of the number of years that women and men can expect to live in good health by taking into account the years lost to violence, disease, malnutrition and other relevant factor." This was defined in the paper but you either chose to ignore it or didn't bother to read how they defined it.