Millions of women around the world, are being denied effective representation because of the low numbers of female politicians, judges and employers, the United Nations has warned. Women face endemic discrimination in nearly all sectors.For women to be adequately represented in their country, at least 30 percent of parliamentary seats should have a female representative. In Britain, only 18 percent of MPs are women, while only 8 percent of MPs in Arab countries are female. Just 20 nations -- including Rwanda, Mozambique, Guyana and Burundi -- have reached or exceeded the 30 percent mark and only three countries (Chile, Spain and Sweden) have complete gender parity in government. 70 percent of the world's 1.2 billion people who are estimated to live in poverty are women and children. A woman dies every minute from complications arising from pregnancy and childbirth, and HIV rates are now rising faster among women than men. Charities say that 700 million women are living without adequate food, water, sanitation and education. Full-time female workers in Japan earn just 51 percent of the wages of their male counterparts, while only one in five managers in Italy is a woman and just 14 percent of the seats in the US Congress are taken by women.
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Antonios Symeonakis
Adelaide

Wow. What a great example of what i was talking about in the other thread.

Steel
I can not understand you because one day you wrote << Wow. What a great example of what i was talking about in the other thread>> and next day in an other thread <<Symeonakis for example has SPAMMED the forum THREE times with similar rubbish>>
Antonios Symeonakis
Adelaide

Antonios,

I know. If he says it one more time before midnight then apparently he turns in to a pumpkin.

you misintepreted the comment and i can see why. on topic, i think the UN statement is silly. first, it only acknowledges on sub-group of society. it also ignores reality and expects other countries to change their society, when even democratic nations are having trouble repecting the most basic human rights of others (USA->TORTURE, kidnapping etc...). i think there is a premeditated agenda behind such a statement and it's offensive to other nations (particularly when those advocating such agendas are more often than not extreme hypocrites)