The New York Times in a special backwardness but also reveals glimmers of progress on the Status of Women.
Germany in the advance led by a woman (what a coincidence, no children) is still considered unbecoming a mother returns to work, even if the child has grown . "Why did you, if you can not deal with it?", They feel the request misguided, already distressed by the complications of organizing a school system that dates until recently did not provide the full time ( >> ). The conservative politician Ursula von der Leyen, who has seven children and strives to promote paternity leave, says that only when he lived in pragmatic America did not feel guilty for having children and careers. There, the reaction to motherhood is like this: Congratulations, you've had a baby! hours back to work to pay for his college ( >> ).
In America itself, however, seems to be trying to expel women from high finance. Sallie Krawcheck, laid off months ago because of the crisis from his post manager at Bank of America, has recently been described. But his is an isolated case: in recent months, the percentage of women on Wall Street fell by almost 5 points. Why? Bruce Greenwald, a professor at Columbia University, argues that the financial environment is one of the most macho ever ( >> ). Apparently, however, not in India, where almost all major banks are run by women . Such as ICICI Bank, the second in the country, where women are 40% of managers and apply innovative and flexible systems for combining work and motherhood. No differences in pay. ( >> )
A similar 40% rather shocked Norway, when he was proposed as a mandatory quota of female representation on boards of directors . Although 80% of women work outside the home, and only half of the ministers of the government is man, the idea of \u200b\u200bintroducing a law to regulate the private sector seemed like a radical proposal. The proposal, however, seems in line with other European countries (not Italy, not): they are discussing similar bills in France, Great Britain, Belgium, Germany and Sweden ( >> ).
Firms female the rest are now a reality even in Afghanistan where the U.S. military is trying to support them, and to give greater stability to the country under reconstruction, is, in truth, to supply materials to the fledgling army U.S. Local Wire ( >> ). The biggest surprise, however, is even further east: Asia is the continent in the world where women have more political power . Often, elected through the power of birth families, rule or have ruled Sri Lanka (Sirimavo Bandaranaike in 1960 was the first woman in the world elected head of state), India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Bangladesh and the Philippines. Even more surprising when you consider that the states of Southeast Asia are almost all Muslim majority. But a German study in 2005, dispels any remaining injury: except in Afghanistan and Brunei, women lead more governments or opposition groups all the Islamic countries of the region ( >> ).
Other surprises in the South: the consequences of Liberia is emerging from 14 years of civil war, led by a female president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. One that has made the fight for the legality of his horse in the election battle 2005, from which emerged the winner, arguing that in Africa men are more at risk of corruption ( >> ). Another topic of political Sirleaf is the fundamental importance of women in the reconstruction of Liberia, by virtue of their greater sensitivity and ability to care. And this, in a nation that had 200 thousand dead, and where the survivors suffer violence, torture, rapes by gangs of former soldiers have become addicted to drugs, the order is maintained by female troops: it is a Mission United Nations, composed of a special police force of Indian women in combat Crime night , in a kind of laboratory for the future of peacekeeping ( >> ).
At this point, it is easy to agree with Nicholas Kristof that the columns of the same newspaper, identifies the next steps for the full emancipation of women: education, health care, microcredit schemes. If we give them the tools will be the African and Asian women to save us, not the manager of the City.
In America itself, however, seems to be trying to expel women from high finance. Sallie Krawcheck, laid off months ago because of the crisis from his post manager at Bank of America, has recently been described. But his is an isolated case: in recent months, the percentage of women on Wall Street fell by almost 5 points. Why? Bruce Greenwald, a professor at Columbia University, argues that the financial environment is one of the most macho ever ( >> ). Apparently, however, not in India, where almost all major banks are run by women . Such as ICICI Bank, the second in the country, where women are 40% of managers and apply innovative and flexible systems for combining work and motherhood. No differences in pay. ( >> )
A similar 40% rather shocked Norway, when he was proposed as a mandatory quota of female representation on boards of directors . Although 80% of women work outside the home, and only half of the ministers of the government is man, the idea of \u200b\u200bintroducing a law to regulate the private sector seemed like a radical proposal. The proposal, however, seems in line with other European countries (not Italy, not): they are discussing similar bills in France, Great Britain, Belgium, Germany and Sweden ( >> ).
Firms female the rest are now a reality even in Afghanistan where the U.S. military is trying to support them, and to give greater stability to the country under reconstruction, is, in truth, to supply materials to the fledgling army U.S. Local Wire ( >> ). The biggest surprise, however, is even further east: Asia is the continent in the world where women have more political power . Often, elected through the power of birth families, rule or have ruled Sri Lanka (Sirimavo Bandaranaike in 1960 was the first woman in the world elected head of state), India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Bangladesh and the Philippines. Even more surprising when you consider that the states of Southeast Asia are almost all Muslim majority. But a German study in 2005, dispels any remaining injury: except in Afghanistan and Brunei, women lead more governments or opposition groups all the Islamic countries of the region ( >> ).
Other surprises in the South: the consequences of Liberia is emerging from 14 years of civil war, led by a female president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. One that has made the fight for the legality of his horse in the election battle 2005, from which emerged the winner, arguing that in Africa men are more at risk of corruption ( >> ). Another topic of political Sirleaf is the fundamental importance of women in the reconstruction of Liberia, by virtue of their greater sensitivity and ability to care. And this, in a nation that had 200 thousand dead, and where the survivors suffer violence, torture, rapes by gangs of former soldiers have become addicted to drugs, the order is maintained by female troops: it is a Mission United Nations, composed of a special police force of Indian women in combat Crime night , in a kind of laboratory for the future of peacekeeping ( >> ).
At this point, it is easy to agree with Nicholas Kristof that the columns of the same newspaper, identifies the next steps for the full emancipation of women: education, health care, microcredit schemes. If we give them the tools will be the African and Asian women to save us, not the manager of the City.
Giulia Stok.
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