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The World Economic Forum is a (self-anointed) global thought leader on politics, sustainability, innovation and equality.
In fact, I actually know the World Economic Forum quite well, I’ve worked with them professionally dozens of times; we’ve collaborated on important projects, we’ve shaken hands, sat around tables and pretended to laugh at each other’s jokes. I’ve even scaled the icy mountains of Switzerland to spend the week documenting the ultra-VIP Davos conference.
Their Global Gender Gap Report is a highly anticipated and respected annual barometer for how the world is doing on its meandering journey toward equality. But with no sense of irony, the report’s methodology is itself, systemically sexist.
So, let’s turn the beady eye of equality onto those pointing the finger, is the GGGR sexist and how?
It’s time to say GG, to the GGGR
Read it for yourself - https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GGGR_2021.pdf
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Sources
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/aug/13/girls-overtake-boys-in-a-level-and-gcse-maths-so-are-they-smarter
[2] https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/global-study-on-homicide.html
[3] https://www.scielosp.org/article/bwho/2014.v92n8/618-620/en/
[4] https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/mars-vs-venus-the-gender-gap-in-health
If women are to be seen by women psychiatrists and female hotline operators. We would have to be able to answer the question: 'What is a woman?'
After all, what exactly is a 'female' psychiatrist or hotline operator? If a 'male' identified themselves as a 'woman', would that be ok for a 'female' patient or caller?
Would the problem be solved if we asked the 'female' to identify as a 'male'?
What if the caller identified as 'they'/'them' and no woman or man can answer the call?
Men have no. Business. In. The. Psychiatric. Therapy. Of. Girls. And. Women.
Not only because men are much more likely to be biased and more likely to mindlessly accept misogynistic theory in psychiatry, but also because especially young, vulnerable girls and women cannot differentiate an adult male in authority being understanding and offering a space to be vulnerable "without consequences" from a romantic or sexual interest. There were so many more comments of girls admitting they're in love with their male therapist. This is fucking scary.