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10 WORST/BEST COUNTRIES FOR WOMEN 2010
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In spite of real progress around the globe, the bedrock problems that have dogged women for centuries remain. Here are 10 of the worst countries in the world to be a woman today:
• Afghanistan: The average Afghan girl will live to only 45 – one year less than an Afghan male. After three decades of war and religion-based repression, an overwhelming number of women are illiterate. More than half of all brides are under 16, and one woman dies in childbirth every half hour. Domestic violence is so common that 87 per cent of women admit to experiencing it. But more than one million widows are on the streets, often forced into prostitution. Afghanistan is the only country in which the female suicide rate is higher than that of males.
• Democratic Republic of Congo: In the eastern DRC, a war that claimed more than 3 million lives has ignited again, with women on the front line. Rapes are so brutal and systematic that UN investigators have called them unprecedented. Many victims die; others are infected with HIV and left to look after children alone. Foraging for food and water exposes women to yet more violence. Without money, transport or connections, they have no way of escape.
• Iraq: The U.S.-led invasion to “liberate” Iraq from Saddam Hussein has imprisoned women in an inferno of sectarian violence that targets women and girls. The literacy rate, once the highest in the Arab world, is now among the lowest as families fear risking kidnapping and rape by sending girls to school. Women who once went out to work stay home. Meanwhile, more than 1 million women have been displaced from their homes, and millions more are unable to earn enough to eat.
• Nepal: Early marriage and childbirth exhaust the country’s malnourished women, and one in 24 will die in pregnancy or childbirth. Daughters who aren’t married off may be sold to traffickers before they reach their teens. Widows face extreme abuse and discrimination if they’re labelled bokshi, meaning witches. A low-level civil war between government and Maoist rebels has forced rural women into guerrilla groups.
• Sudan: While Sudanese women have made strides under reformed laws, the plight of those in Darfur, in western Sudan, has worsened. Abduction, rape or forced displacement have destroyed more than 1 million women’s lives since 2003. The janjaweed militias have used systematic rape as a demographic weapon, but access to justice is almost impossible for the female victims of violence.
• Other countries in which women’s lives are significantly worse than men’s include Guatemala, where an impoverished female underclass faces domestic violence, rape and the second-highest rate of HIV/AIDS after sub-Saharan Africa. An epidemic of gruesome unsolved murders has left hundreds of women dead, some of their bodies left with hate messages.
In Mali, one of the world’s poorest countries, few women escape the torture of genital mutilation, many are forced into early marriages, and one in 10 dies in pregnancy or childbirth.
In the tribal border areas of Pakistan, women are gang-raped as punishment for men’s crimes. But honour killing is more widespread, and a renewed wave of religious extremism is targeting female politicians, human rights workers and lawyers.
In oil-rich Saudi Arabia, women are treated as lifelong dependents, under the guardianship of a male relative. Deprived of the right to drive a car or mix with men publicly, they are confined to strictly segregated lives on pain of severe punishment.
In the Somali capital, Mogadishu, a vicious civil war has put women, who were the traditional mainstay of the family, under attack. In a society that has broken down, women are exposed daily to rape, dangerously poor health care for pregnancy, and attack by armed gangs.
“While the potential of women is recognized at the international level,” says World Health Organization director-general Margaret Chan, “this potential will not be realized until conditions improve – often dramatically – in countries and communities. Too many complex factors, often rooted in social and cultural norms, continue to hinder the ability of women and girls to achieve their potential and benefit from social advances.”
http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/326354 by By Olivia Ward
Best Countries To Be A Woman
Measures of well-being include life expectancy, education, purchasing power and standard of living. Not surprisingly, the top 10 countries are among the world’s wealthiest:
* Iceland
* Norway
* Australia
* Canada
* Ireland
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* Japan
* Netherlands
* France
Source: UNDP Gender-related development index
In spite of real progress around the globe, the bedrock problems that have dogged women for centuries remain. Here are 10 of the worst countries in the world to be a woman today:
• Afghanistan: The average Afghan girl will live to only 45 – one year less than an Afghan male. After three decades of war and religion-based repression, an overwhelming number of women are illiterate. More than half of all brides are under 16, and one woman dies in childbirth every half hour. Domestic violence is so common that 87 per cent of women admit to experiencing it. But more than one million widows are on the streets, often forced into prostitution. Afghanistan is the only country in which the female suicide rate is higher than that of males.
• Democratic Republic of Congo: In the eastern DRC, a war that claimed more than 3 million lives has ignited again, with women on the front line. Rapes are so brutal and systematic that UN investigators have called them unprecedented. Many victims die; others are infected with HIV and left to look after children alone. Foraging for food and water exposes women to yet more violence. Without money, transport or connections, they have no way of escape.
• Iraq: The U.S.-led invasion to “liberate” Iraq from Saddam Hussein has imprisoned women in an inferno of sectarian violence that targets women and girls. The literacy rate, once the highest in the Arab world, is now among the lowest as families fear risking kidnapping and rape by sending girls to school. Women who once went out to work stay home. Meanwhile, more than 1 million women have been displaced from their homes, and millions more are unable to earn enough to eat.
• Nepal: Early marriage and childbirth exhaust the country’s malnourished women, and one in 24 will die in pregnancy or childbirth. Daughters who aren’t married off may be sold to traffickers before they reach their teens. Widows face extreme abuse and discrimination if they’re labelled bokshi, meaning witches. A low-level civil war between government and Maoist rebels has forced rural women into guerrilla groups.
• Sudan: While Sudanese women have made strides under reformed laws, the plight of those in Darfur, in western Sudan, has worsened. Abduction, rape or forced displacement have destroyed more than 1 million women’s lives since 2003. The janjaweed militias have used systematic rape as a demographic weapon, but access to justice is almost impossible for the female victims of violence.
• Other countries in which women’s lives are significantly worse than men’s include Guatemala, where an impoverished female underclass faces domestic violence, rape and the second-highest rate of HIV/AIDS after sub-Saharan Africa. An epidemic of gruesome unsolved murders has left hundreds of women dead, some of their bodies left with hate messages.
In Mali, one of the world’s poorest countries, few women escape the torture of genital mutilation, many are forced into early marriages, and one in 10 dies in pregnancy or childbirth.
In the tribal border areas of Pakistan, women are gang-raped as punishment for men’s crimes. But honour killing is more widespread, and a renewed wave of religious extremism is targeting female politicians, human rights workers and lawyers.
In oil-rich Saudi Arabia, women are treated as lifelong dependents, under the guardianship of a male relative. Deprived of the right to drive a car or mix with men publicly, they are confined to strictly segregated lives on pain of severe punishment.
In the Somali capital, Mogadishu, a vicious civil war has put women, who were the traditional mainstay of the family, under attack. In a society that has broken down, women are exposed daily to rape, dangerously poor health care for pregnancy, and attack by armed gangs.
“While the potential of women is recognized at the international level,” says World Health Organization director-general Margaret Chan, “this potential will not be realized until conditions improve – often dramatically – in countries and communities. Too many complex factors, often rooted in social and cultural norms, continue to hinder the ability of women and girls to achieve their potential and benefit from social advances.”
http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/326354 by By Olivia Ward
Best Countries To Be A Woman
Measures of well-being include life expectancy, education, purchasing power and standard of living. Not surprisingly, the top 10 countries are among the world’s wealthiest:
* Iceland
* Norway
* Australia
* Canada
* Ireland
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* Japan
* Netherlands
* France
Source: UNDP Gender-related development index
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On February 10, 2011 I received this email from a reader:
Submitted Information:Name
Vincent Koenig
Email
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Comment
I was looking for the worst countries to be a woman because I am moving away from my country soon, and since I regard women as vastly inferior to men in every aspect and not fairly entitled to any right whatsoever, I am searching for which country females are most closely treated like pet animals.
I know that your brainwashed feminist primitive cerebrum is perhaps going nuts by reading such non-liberal non-PC opinions, but it's all true. I, however, do not search for women to be raped and killed. Just being fourth-class citizens. It seems that Saudi Arabia is the right place to be.
PS: not my real e-mail, don't bother answering and calling me names
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On February 10, 2011 I received this email from a reader:
Submitted Information:Name
Vincent Koenig
[email protected]
Comment
I was looking for the worst countries to be a woman because I am moving away from my country soon, and since I regard women as vastly inferior to men in every aspect and not fairly entitled to any right whatsoever, I am searching for which country females are most closely treated like pet animals.
I know that your brainwashed feminist primitive cerebrum is perhaps going nuts by reading such non-liberal non-PC opinions, but it's all true. I, however, do not search for women to be raped and killed. Just being fourth-class citizens. It seems that Saudi Arabia is the right place to be.
PS: not my real e-mail, don't bother answering and calling me names
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From Women's Health Magazine The Best Places to Live For Women, based on breast cancer rates to job growth and even the single men population:
UNDER THE CATEGORY OF HEALTH
Least likely to die of breast cancer: Portland, OR
Most likely to die of breast cancer: Richmond, VA
Least likely to die of colon cancer: Colorado Springs, CO
Most likely to die of colon cancer: Lubbock, TX
Least likely to die of lung cancer: El Paso, TX
Most likely to die of lung cancer: Baltimore, MD
Least likely to die of diabetes: Aurora, CO
Most likely to die of diabetes: Corpus Christi, TX
Least likely to die of heart disease: St. Paul, MN
Most likely to die of heart disease: Detroit, MI
Least likely to die of stroke: Fargo, ND
Most likely to die of stroke: Baltimore, MD
Lowest suicide rate: Yonkers, NY
Highest suicide rate: Anchorage, AK
Least likely to die in an accident: Yonkers, NY
Most likely to die in an accident: Tulsa, OK
Lowest obesity rate: Fremont, CA; Oakland, CA; San Francisco, CA (three-way tie)
Highest obesity rate: Lubbock, TX
Highest fruit and veggie intake: Nashville, TN
Lowest fruit and veggie intake: Oklahoma City, OK
Highest life expectancy (for a 30-year-old woman): Honolulu, HI
Lowest life expectancy (for a 30-year-old woman): Baltimore, MD
Least likely to light up: San Jose, CA
Most likely to light up: Greensboro, NC
To read more BEST/WORST that include LIFE & FITNESS go here: http://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/the-best-cities-for-women
If you are interested in finding some of the worst places, here are some resources.
http://www.girleffect.org/
http://www.unwomen.org/
http://www.freetheslaves.net/
UNDER THE CATEGORY OF HEALTH
Least likely to die of breast cancer: Portland, OR
Most likely to die of breast cancer: Richmond, VA
Least likely to die of colon cancer: Colorado Springs, CO
Most likely to die of colon cancer: Lubbock, TX
Least likely to die of lung cancer: El Paso, TX
Most likely to die of lung cancer: Baltimore, MD
Least likely to die of diabetes: Aurora, CO
Most likely to die of diabetes: Corpus Christi, TX
Least likely to die of heart disease: St. Paul, MN
Most likely to die of heart disease: Detroit, MI
Least likely to die of stroke: Fargo, ND
Most likely to die of stroke: Baltimore, MD
Lowest suicide rate: Yonkers, NY
Highest suicide rate: Anchorage, AK
Least likely to die in an accident: Yonkers, NY
Most likely to die in an accident: Tulsa, OK
Lowest obesity rate: Fremont, CA; Oakland, CA; San Francisco, CA (three-way tie)
Highest obesity rate: Lubbock, TX
Highest fruit and veggie intake: Nashville, TN
Lowest fruit and veggie intake: Oklahoma City, OK
Highest life expectancy (for a 30-year-old woman): Honolulu, HI
Lowest life expectancy (for a 30-year-old woman): Baltimore, MD
Least likely to light up: San Jose, CA
Most likely to light up: Greensboro, NC
To read more BEST/WORST that include LIFE & FITNESS go here: http://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/the-best-cities-for-women
If you are interested in finding some of the worst places, here are some resources.
http://www.girleffect.org/
http://www.unwomen.org/
http://www.freetheslaves.net/
