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Ten Worst Countries for Women
From the New York-based Equality Now, a list of the ten worst countries for women: afghanistan, Republic of Congo, Iraq, Nepal, Sudan, Guatemala, Mali, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Somalia.
This map shows literacy rates for diffferent countries. In countries with low literacy rates (under 50%), women's literacy rates are even lower than men's. In the following countries, women's literacy rate is less than 50 per cent of men's:
Mali 49 per cent
Benin 49 per cent
Yemen 47 per cent
Mozambique 46 per cent
Ethiopia 46 per cent
Guinea 42 per cent
Niger 35 per cent
Chad 31 per cent
Afghanistan 28 per cent
Countries with women's literacy rate less than 70 per cent of men's:
India 65 per cent
Morocco 60 per cent
The ten best countries for women, based on life expectancy, education, purchasing power and standard of living are: Iceland, Norway, Australia, Canada, Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland, Japan, Netherlands and France. I'm not sure why the U.S. isn't one of these.
Gotta hand it to those decadent Western nations that so many non-Western people flee to.
March 08, 2008 | Permalink