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JMM 10/18/2010 05:08 PM Report
REMant, I don't know if you check back on these sites, but in case you do, here is the link about how well the province of BC measures up to UN CEDAW standards. This story made the front page of the Vancouver Sun, but only the hard copy edition. The responses to the story are negative. I'll be adding a comment on those soon. I'll also be the door greeter at the film premiere Constitute! which is to do about the ad hoc committee whose efforts resulted in more substansive rights in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Other countries, like Afghanistan and Rwanda are in the film as well. It's going to be shown in high schools afterwards, because this information was not added to the history books.
http://digital.vancouversun.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
I'm thankful to the World Economic Forum for the statistics that show what progress has been achieved or is still needed. Kudos to the top countries: Iceland, Norway, Finland, Sweden, and New Zealand. And the US is ahead of Canada now? Well done, US.
anne4444 10/16/2010 05:48 PM Report
I am very sure that Mr. Klaus Schwab who benefits himself from globalization tremendously.
If Mr. Klaus Schwab would give up his passport and move into a country where no clean water, nor electricity are available, then. I would believe his word. At least his action matches his word.
Business has no border, but country does.
If his will is to shorten the distance between the Rich and the Poor inside the US, he can replace the Sales TAX with Globalization TAX. Since the margin for profit is so high, 400% TAX shall be a fine number. If he does that, within less than 5 years he will see… the Poor, the homeless, the hopeless and the jobless will pay income TAX.
He can’t see the poverty by flying around; he needs to travel by car. Only then, he will be waken up by the reality of human suffering in a “wealthy” nation.
robdverity 10/16/2010 01:29 AM Report
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JMM 10/15/2010 03:50 PM Report
REMant, I love to read your comments. I've mentioned that before. Your knowledge/education is impressive, and at times overwhelming.
However, when it comes to gender parity, well, I suppose I could point you to a few places so that you can learn more about it. Canada's Globe and Mail this week has a discussion on women in power. There will be many articles there, for as one headlines states, Canadians like to think they are ahead of the US when it comes to human rights, but in some cases that may not be so.
Next week, a report on the UN's Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) will be out. After I read it, I'll help call local media outlets to get coverage on whether Canada and BC are still receiving failing grades. A Google search showed that there were attempts this year to get CEDAW ratified in the US.
If you go to the 1960s and 1970s works, you will find out why feminism escalated to women's liberation. I just looked at "A Historical Study of Women in Canadian Banking, 1900 - 1975," and the first page might help you to understand the dilemma. Or go back to the 1850s in the US. The movements usually begin with an issue about work and pay. Imagine that! But don't stop at the issue of equal wages, as there is systemic discrimination in types of work.
Here is a good link for you to look at: Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000. http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/wam2/wam2.index.map.aspx
REMant 10/15/2010 03:00 PM Report
Krugman probably despises this guy. And many other economists, too, for what he is saying is that there are no purely financial fixes. Instead of assuming as ppl like Friedman or Keynes that economies respond to money, it is rather that money responds to economies, as the classical writers thought, money most often just getting in the way.
The problem with globalization is not with free trade, but with the imbalance between developed and developing areas. The developed has to equilibrate with the developing world, with China and the others, but it cannot by insisting that the latter pay its workers more. It has to be that the developed world must accept less. That means they must accept deflation, and the opposite tack must be inflationary.
Gender parity is not so simply measured, because it seems clear, to me at least, that women have ruled developed economies for several centuries, if not millennia. Men may have occupied the positions, wives may not have called the shots directly, but the entire rationale has been centered around the preservation of women, their needs and concerns, which despite Peggy Lee's notable lament "Why don't you do right, like some other men do?" has certainly not heretofore been inadequate, tho some may think so, such as the Amazon school of sci-fi writing. And in any case those positions are at odds with the essential socialism of divided labor so the only thing you can legitimately object to is that there is not uniform pay, which is in large part due to the persistence of families.