Girls and women ‘hit the hardest’ by global recession
Women and girls have been hit the hardest by the global recession, according to child rights and development organisations.
“The world is failing girls and women,” a report by Plan International and the Overseas Development Institute said.
A shrinking economy sent girls’ infant mortality soaring, and more females were abused or starved, they said.
This could erode gains made in recent years towards reaching the Millennium Development Goals, they added.
“The improvements made during the last five years are very fragile,” Nigel Chapman, chief executive of child rights organisation Plan International, told BBC News.
“It is shocking, because I don’t think anyone’s really noticing it.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21088042
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And by that they mean “Men and women are hit equally, but they will count every family where the man lost his job as the wife and kids being hit.”
Seriousy, whats next? They will claim that natural disasters hit women more? Our civilisation was allways gynocentric, but this is getting ridiculous.
“Our civilization was always gynocentric”. Bahahahahahahaha! That’s a good one. You need a history book desperately.
Or maybe you need a dictionary. Gynocentric does not means matriarchal. It means there is inherent value placed on a womans life, and that is true. From the very beginning of tribal times people realised one thing.
If all but one of the tribes men die, they can still repopulate with the women.
If all but one of the tribes women die, they are finished.
Today when there are more the 7 billion of us, we still place inherent value on a womans life, and men are only valued according to their performance.
Of course to see and understand this, you would need to take your head out of your own butt, but that really cannot be expected from you “agirl”.
Both sexes are equal now, aside from physical and mental strength. (Men arephysically stronger than women, while Women are mentally stronger than men). Opression is all in thepast, so let’s all get along and quit complaining about nonsense (or should i say BULLSHIT!)