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After I read Sonja’s blog entry on gender equality in Turkey, I decided to look at the Global Gender Gap Report, so in this entry, I will share my thoughts about it. Firstly, though I didn’t guess Iceland for the #1 spot, I did think of European, especially the Nordic countries, to have been placed at the top places. Iceland’s triumph was not surprising; however, I did see something that not just got me by surprise, but it actually shocked me!
As you take a good look at the rankings, you will see that most African and other developing countries that are much poorer and troubled than Turkey, place really high on the chart- specifically higher than Turkey. I never thought that would be the case! In the chart, Lesotho is #10, Trinidad&Tobago #19, Mozambique #26, Namibia #32 and finally, we come to Turkey which places at number 129(out of 134 countries!!! )
When I saw these results, I was at a loss for words. One might ask, “How could this be?” Well, I guess it is time for the Turkish society to examine itself. “WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH US?!?”---this is the question that the society needs to be asking and there is no need to be polite about it.
After I read Sonja’s blog entry on gender equality in Turkey, I decided to look at the Global Gender Gap Report, so in this entry, I will share my thoughts about it. Firstly, though I didn’t guess Iceland for the #1 spot, I did think of European, especially the Nordic countries, to have been placed at the top places. Iceland’s triumph was not surprising; however, I did see something that not just got me by surprise, but it actually shocked me!
As you take a good look at the rankings, you will see that most African and other developing countries that are much poorer and troubled than Turkey, place really high on the chart- specifically higher than Turkey. I never thought that would be the case! In the chart, Lesotho is #10, Trinidad&Tobago #19, Mozambique #26, Namibia #32 and finally, we come to Turkey which places at number 129(out of 134 countries!!! )
When I saw these results, I was at a loss for words. One might ask, “How could this be?” Well, I guess it is time for the Turkish society to examine itself. “WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH US?!?”---this is the question that the society needs to be asking and there is no need to be polite about it.
I read this when you posted it but wanted to have time to respond properly.
ReplyDeleteI think you're so right to point this out. I was very surprised at the position of South Africa in particular, since I have read several news reports about the extremely high incidence of rape in the country - as many of 25% of men are rapists, and some women have been raped multiple times by different men. So it's shocking to see that it ranks number 6, even above many Western European and other industrialised countries.
Well, I hope you will explore what the hell is wrong with Turkey in greater detail. This site may help: http://www.stopvaw.org/Turkey.html.
A couple of observations about the 'technical' side of blogging. First of all, it's great to see you've used a Creative Commons image, and that you've cited it. You might like to consider hyperlinking both the photographer and the licence, as I've done on my blog. Hyperlinks act as 'in-text citations' on blogs.
It is also great to see you've referenced my post for others to visit easily. Here, I can suggest that you click on the title of my post, then link to that URL. That will take readers directly to the post rather than to my whole blog.
Keep up the great work!
Happy Bayram,
Sonja