Is the status of women in a country directly related to the country’s ranking on the Human Development Index.
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Not really. Do you think women are treated better in Norway than in the US? Or worse in the UK? Certainly some of the lower countries treat their women poorly, but that's really part of a larger social problem that is causing the poor HDI.
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no... never in a male chaunist country like USA or do u mean d continent... huh never heard of any either!  It is the 'backward' countries in the 3rd world who have history of women as executive heads... pakistan, bangladesh, india, Indonesia and like!!!
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I would say NO. They are equal. Men know more on some things, and women know on other things so it all equals out.
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yes....women are the back bone of a country..especially when u consider developing countries.the economy of a coutry depends on them.Educated mothers..educate their children,create a new work force and boost the economy.
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I have capitalized the changes I feel are needed.\n\nIt is not a distinction achieved by \nmany (A deleted) women of genius. That is the true\ntest OF the changed position of women \nin India. What really is epochal or marks\na revolutionary CHANGE is their free\nand equal participation IN all spheres of\nnational activity, and AT every level,\nfrom work in villages to NATIONAL government. \nIt was never a part of the \nIndian tradition that women WERE INFERIOR by nature.\n\nFOLLOW-UP: (Now that you have explained exactly what you need I have rewritten as follows) (And I find nothing wrong with the very first line):\n\nIt is not a distinction achieved by \nmany a WOMEN-WOMAN of genius that is the true\ntest FROM-OF the changed position of women \nin India. What really is epochal OR-AND marks\na revolutionary CHANGES-CHANGE is their free\nand equal participation ON-IN all spheres of\nnational activity, and IN-ON every level,\nfrom work in villages to A GOVERNMENT-GOVERNING of\nTHE COUNTRIES- A COUNTRY. It was never a part of the \nIndian tradition that women WAS-WERE by nature inferior.
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I don't know of an actual quantitative or qualitative scale to measure a country's development.   However there is a litmus test that economists generally use to measure how developed a country is.  You see how industrialized it is.  What kind of exporting or importing it does, how much foreign dependency it has.
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yes most def. it applies to women its just a little less common.
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try this for a change\n\nhttp://www.makerere.ac.ug/womenstudies/congress/abstarct/Gender,%20the%20Economy%20and%20the%20Workplace.htm
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It depends what part of the country you are talking about. The roles of woman in Mexican URBAN areas are the same as those in the cities in the U.S. However, you will still find small towns in certain states, specially those in the South, where traditional Mexican values are still alive and well. In those places there's a lot more to be expected from a woman socially (attend to their husbands, get married by a certain age, modesty).\n\nAnd even there, there are some excpetions. I recently found out about a community of indians in the State of Oaxaca where men are subordinated to the authority of women and to their wives. LOL!! So, you never know.
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I suppose the opposite would also be a bias question.  Would the world be better run by women?  I think that egual representation all around would be ideal.  Keep in mind, there are plenty of great male representatives and plenty of bad ones.  Again, the same can be said for females.  So, the question should be, is it important that free society be governed by fair rulers?
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Of course it is. Us women have hair there too but obviously not as much lol.
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Niger (according to the UN Human Development Index)\n\nThe same index puts Norwy at the top
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It should be equal.  We don't live in a society like Iran where women are treated like dirt.  Women have just as many rights as men.
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Women as Policy Makers: Evidence from a Randomized Policy Experiment in India\nRaghabendra Chattopadhyay and Esther Duflo \n\nEconometrica, 2004, vol. 72, issue 5, pages 1409-1443 \n\nAbstract: This paper uses political reservations for women in India to study the impact of women's leadership on policy decisions. Since the mid-1990's, one third of Village Council head positions in India have been randomly reserved for a woman: In these councils only women could be elected to the position of head. Village Councils are responsible for the provision of many local public goods in rural areas. Using a dataset we collected on 265 Village Councils in West Bengal and Rajasthan, we compare the type of public goods provided in reserved and unreserved Village Councils. We show that the reservation of a council seat affects the types of public goods provided. Specifically, leaders invest more in infrastructure that is directly relevant to the needs of their own genders. Copyright The Econometric Society 2004. \n\nView citations in EconPapers \n\nDownloads: (external link)\nhttp://hdl.handle.ne ... 68-0262.2004.00539.x link to full text (text/html) \nAccess to full text is restricted to subscribers. \n\nRelated works:\nThis item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title. \n\nOrdering information: This journal article can be ordered from\nhttp://www.blackwell ... mb.asp?ref=0012-9682\njnlinfo@blackwellpublishers.co.uk \n\nAccess Statistics for this article
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Kerala.Women comprise 51.42% of the population\nVR
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Probably the U.S. military is the best example.  \n\nThey still enforce quotas for women, who are excluded from many combat duties I believe, unless there's been massive changes since I was in about 15 years ago.
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Generally yes. Woman are making great strides, but still in process. We are too understanding of men, but even that is changing some. There are ancient tribes, I read about [think Nat'l Geog.], where the women were actually the leader - a maternal society. Another one the men and women actually were pretty equal in power within tribe politics. Pretty cool. So both are possible for people, naturally. [Think these were in New Guinea?]