Is There A Difference?
On a global scale there is nearly an equal number of men and women. According to The World Bank Group, the ratio of males to females participating in primary, secondary, and tertiary education is almost equal.
BBC News published an article on the 2nd of January entitled: Oprah opens school in S Africa. According to BBC News Oprah spent US$40 million on a school in South Africa for promising girls. 152 girls aged 12-13 will attend in 2007.
The World Bank Group’s data on Education in South Africa says that there is a higher percentage of females attending secondary school. The question needs to be asked, why has so much money been spent on a school only for women, when statistics show that men in South Africa, and even the world, are harder done by.
US Magazine also published an article on Oprah’s gift of charity. A reader made a comment after the article, that “70% of the women on this earth live in extreme poverty. Also, anywhere from 50%-75% of women in developing countries are illiterate.”
This may be so, however, after spending several hours researching the issue, I’m yet to find the percentage of the males that live in extreme poverty alongside all the women. I would put it to the author of this comment that the percentage of men and women living in poverty would be very similar, and I challenge them to disprove it.
Also, according to The World Bank Group, the percentage of literate young men and literate young women is separated by less than 1% percent in South Africa.
The portrayal of the sad state of women’s poverty and literacy rates in third world countries and even the world is a huge bias against men. Statistics, websites, books, and opinions published in the last 30 years all share an unfair focus on women, or the population as a whole, hardly ever just men. Men are being so blatantly discriminated against, and I call for a more accurate representation in society of the issues facing both women and men, and help be given to both of them.
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January 15th, 2007
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