theHRguyTIL: Iranian Women Graduate in STEM at Nearly 3× the Rate of U.S. Women — and Has 5× More PhD Students Per Capita
Keeps the thoughts from evaporating.
The only group I know of trying to quantify womens rights internationally as a whole is here: 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 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%.
F1 TV on Apple TV this year is SO much better than Sky on ESPN. What the hell have I been watching for the last many years?
BuelldozerMahsa Amini.
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 didn’t account for all the difference.
USA:
Congratulations on finding the Gender-equality paradox rabbit hole!
starlingukI’m sure the US will "fix this “problem” ASAP. See also Afghanistan and Iraq.
Don’t forget that Iran / Persia is ancient civilization, way older than modern western mainstream.
if it wasn’t already a reason for fear, those Christians would be absolutely horrified and in disbelief of such power
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.
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.