The Paula Principle

Author: peterprinciple

whose jobs?

There's a long-running debate about what the impact of new technology is on skills at work.   Routine  jobs are liable to automation and/or outsourcing to countries where labour is cheaper.  But how far are less routine jobs beaching vulnerable to the same processes? Which kinds of jobs get automated is obviously relevant to the PP.    Will they be in the occupations where it's mostly women that work?  What will happen to the kinds of jobs that women mainly do?   I've been reading (parts of) a pretty strenuous piece on this by Carl Frey and Michael Osborne from the Oxford Martin School, called The Future of Employment:  how…
Read More

Attention on part-time work

I gave a small - very small, attendance about a dozen - seminar  on the PP recently at the Institute of Education.  A clever press release, not written by me, gained a lot of coverage - including the illustration below for the Peter Principle, which made me chuckle. What captured attention was the argument that only if more men work part-time  will part-time work become more recognised as a legitimate career option.  Is this a pessimistic argument, or a realistic one?   I know that friends of mine firmly believe that the only way to go is full-time.  But my argument is that the progress towards greater equality at work…
Read More

Honours crossover

Today marks another crossover point:  for the first time more women than men received honours from the Queen.   This must in part be a result of   the educational crossovers that have seen women move steadily ahead in qualifications.    In other words,   it's some reflection of  how women are appearing more in significant positions at work.  Of course women have always figured in the voluntary sector section of the honours list, and received some measure of recognition there - even though at the low end of the honours satis list.  But  the human capital picture (qualifications and skills) is now looking more like the social capital picture…
Read More

How to count training, and explain the results

There' a rather curious thing about our attitudes to training.  On the one hand, an endless mantra about a high-skill economy, and how we need to push up skills training.  On the other hand we seem not to care very much about how we should be measuring training so that we understand better what we do and don't know about it.  We tend to use very crude measures which tell us about the proportion of people participating over a given period, and not much else. How there's a very welcome contribution to the training debate, from Francis Green and colleagues at LLAKES,  which goes well beyond this.  It looks at…
Read More

Men and choice

Since I have to rewrite my  PP book completely (a difficult verdict  to swallow from a publisher, but one I now recognise as correct), I've been doing some further interviews, or conversations as I prefer to think of them .   My latest respondent described to me the remarkable case  of her father, a senior engineer who chose to leave his job and be the main parent for his four girls, while his wife took up her career as a teacher.  This was not for financial reasons - the father would have earned more, even though the mother ended up a headteacher- - but simply because the couple decided that…
Read More

ages and cohorts

  On Monday evening I went to an interesting meeting on older women and politics, at my old stomping ground Birkbeck (never miss an opportunity to promote it).  The event was convened by  two political scientists, Joni Lovenduski and Rosie Campbell.  They showed some evidence on  older women's political attitudes, voting patterns and other issues, eg on retirement age.   Older women (already retired) are apparently more opposed to the raising of the State Pension Age than their younger counterparts.  Rosie interpreted this as a sign of altruism (i.e. these older women didn't want the next generation to have to work longer);  I thought it could be looked at differently, that…
Read More

Gender job splitting

Some familiar-but-important and some new material from a discussion on a new report today from the TUC/Work Foundation, on the Gender Jobs Split. The familiar was about the dismal and depressing overall levels of youth unemployment, and their probable long-term impact on the futures of this generation.   Familiar too, but in a different sense, is the way young women and men go into their separate groups of occupations - the difference being that many of the commentators expressed surprise (as well as dismay) at how little things have changed on this over the decades.  Ian Brinkley described progress on gender desegregation as 'glacial';  others went further and suggested that the…
Read More

Great Gatsby curve

    Ever heard of the Great Gatsby curve?  Nor had I (or should that be, I hadn't)  until I went to a seminar yesterday, and was told that it has             been getting the attention of some important people, including the White House - though whether that includes the actual Person in the White House is not sure. Anyway, the GGC shows a relationship between growing inequality on the one hand and diminishing social mobility (SM) on the other.  This makes pretty good intuitive sense, and also appeals to me politically, ie it's another black mark against increasing inequality.  But the presenter at the…
Read More

Saudi drivers, and more on the WEF Gender Gap report

Women in Saudi Arabia want to be free to drive their cars.  There's a surprise.  From what I've read on the events of the last couple of days (which is not a lot), there has been a kind of Mexican stand-off, with the authorities not enforcing their ban on women drivers and the women not pushing it too far.  But this does look like some kind of crack opening up, which will be hard to paper over. This takes me back to the World Economic Forum's stimulating and rich Gender Gap report.  I posted on this yesterday, so you'll of course remember that it uses 4 dimensions - economics, education, health…
Read More

WEF Gender Index

From the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap  report comes some heavy duty and intriguing indicator work on progress towards gender equality in four areas:  the economy, health, education and politics.  I'm not a serious numbers person (more's the pity), but you can get the essence of the report quite easily, and then spend as long as your inclination or capacity allows you digging around in the detail, including in the 136 individual country reports.  Here's my go at extracting the overall picture, and then a few nuggets.  Maybe more in a later post. For each of the four 'pillars' the report uses a number of indicators to measure equality between…
Read More

whose jobs?

There's a long-running debate about what the impact of new technology is on skills at work.   Routine  jobs are liable to automation and/or outsourcing to countries where labour is cheaper.  But how far are less routine jobs beaching vulnerable to the same processes? Which kinds of jobs get automated is obviously relevant to the PP.    Will they be in the occupations where it's mostly women that work?  What will happen to the kinds of jobs that women mainly do?   I've been reading (parts of) a pretty strenuous piece on this by Carl Frey and Michael Osborne from the Oxford Martin School, called The Future of Employment:  how…
Read More

Attention on part-time work

I gave a small - very small, attendance about a dozen - seminar  on the PP recently at the Institute of Education.  A clever press release, not written by me, gained a lot of coverage - including the illustration below for the Peter Principle, which made me chuckle. What captured attention was the argument that only if more men work part-time  will part-time work become more recognised as a legitimate career option.  Is this a pessimistic argument, or a realistic one?   I know that friends of mine firmly believe that the only way to go is full-time.  But my argument is that the progress towards greater equality at work…
Read More

Honours crossover

Today marks another crossover point:  for the first time more women than men received honours from the Queen.   This must in part be a result of   the educational crossovers that have seen women move steadily ahead in qualifications.    In other words,   it's some reflection of  how women are appearing more in significant positions at work.  Of course women have always figured in the voluntary sector section of the honours list, and received some measure of recognition there - even though at the low end of the honours satis list.  But  the human capital picture (qualifications and skills) is now looking more like the social capital picture…
Read More

How to count training, and explain the results

There' a rather curious thing about our attitudes to training.  On the one hand, an endless mantra about a high-skill economy, and how we need to push up skills training.  On the other hand we seem not to care very much about how we should be measuring training so that we understand better what we do and don't know about it.  We tend to use very crude measures which tell us about the proportion of people participating over a given period, and not much else. How there's a very welcome contribution to the training debate, from Francis Green and colleagues at LLAKES,  which goes well beyond this.  It looks at…
Read More

Men and choice

Since I have to rewrite my  PP book completely (a difficult verdict  to swallow from a publisher, but one I now recognise as correct), I've been doing some further interviews, or conversations as I prefer to think of them .   My latest respondent described to me the remarkable case  of her father, a senior engineer who chose to leave his job and be the main parent for his four girls, while his wife took up her career as a teacher.  This was not for financial reasons - the father would have earned more, even though the mother ended up a headteacher- - but simply because the couple decided that…
Read More

ages and cohorts

  On Monday evening I went to an interesting meeting on older women and politics, at my old stomping ground Birkbeck (never miss an opportunity to promote it).  The event was convened by  two political scientists, Joni Lovenduski and Rosie Campbell.  They showed some evidence on  older women's political attitudes, voting patterns and other issues, eg on retirement age.   Older women (already retired) are apparently more opposed to the raising of the State Pension Age than their younger counterparts.  Rosie interpreted this as a sign of altruism (i.e. these older women didn't want the next generation to have to work longer);  I thought it could be looked at differently, that…
Read More

Gender job splitting

Some familiar-but-important and some new material from a discussion on a new report today from the TUC/Work Foundation, on the Gender Jobs Split. The familiar was about the dismal and depressing overall levels of youth unemployment, and their probable long-term impact on the futures of this generation.   Familiar too, but in a different sense, is the way young women and men go into their separate groups of occupations - the difference being that many of the commentators expressed surprise (as well as dismay) at how little things have changed on this over the decades.  Ian Brinkley described progress on gender desegregation as 'glacial';  others went further and suggested that the…
Read More

Great Gatsby curve

    Ever heard of the Great Gatsby curve?  Nor had I (or should that be, I hadn't)  until I went to a seminar yesterday, and was told that it has             been getting the attention of some important people, including the White House - though whether that includes the actual Person in the White House is not sure. Anyway, the GGC shows a relationship between growing inequality on the one hand and diminishing social mobility (SM) on the other.  This makes pretty good intuitive sense, and also appeals to me politically, ie it's another black mark against increasing inequality.  But the presenter at the…
Read More

Saudi drivers, and more on the WEF Gender Gap report

Women in Saudi Arabia want to be free to drive their cars.  There's a surprise.  From what I've read on the events of the last couple of days (which is not a lot), there has been a kind of Mexican stand-off, with the authorities not enforcing their ban on women drivers and the women not pushing it too far.  But this does look like some kind of crack opening up, which will be hard to paper over. This takes me back to the World Economic Forum's stimulating and rich Gender Gap report.  I posted on this yesterday, so you'll of course remember that it uses 4 dimensions - economics, education, health…
Read More

WEF Gender Index

From the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap  report comes some heavy duty and intriguing indicator work on progress towards gender equality in four areas:  the economy, health, education and politics.  I'm not a serious numbers person (more's the pity), but you can get the essence of the report quite easily, and then spend as long as your inclination or capacity allows you digging around in the detail, including in the 136 individual country reports.  Here's my go at extracting the overall picture, and then a few nuggets.  Maybe more in a later post. For each of the four 'pillars' the report uses a number of indicators to measure equality between…
Read More

whose jobs?

There's a long-running debate about what the impact of new technology is on skills at work.   Routine  jobs are liable to automation and/or outsourcing to countries where labour is cheaper.  But how far are less routine jobs beaching vulnerable to the same processes? Which kinds of jobs get automated is obviously relevant to the PP.    Will they be in the occupations where it's mostly women that work?  What will happen to the kinds of jobs that women mainly do?   I've been reading (parts of) a pretty strenuous piece on this by Carl Frey and Michael Osborne from the Oxford Martin School, called The Future of Employment:  how…
Read More

Attention on part-time work

I gave a small - very small, attendance about a dozen - seminar  on the PP recently at the Institute of Education.  A clever press release, not written by me, gained a lot of coverage - including the illustration below for the Peter Principle, which made me chuckle. What captured attention was the argument that only if more men work part-time  will part-time work become more recognised as a legitimate career option.  Is this a pessimistic argument, or a realistic one?   I know that friends of mine firmly believe that the only way to go is full-time.  But my argument is that the progress towards greater equality at work…
Read More

Honours crossover

Today marks another crossover point:  for the first time more women than men received honours from the Queen.   This must in part be a result of   the educational crossovers that have seen women move steadily ahead in qualifications.    In other words,   it's some reflection of  how women are appearing more in significant positions at work.  Of course women have always figured in the voluntary sector section of the honours list, and received some measure of recognition there - even though at the low end of the honours satis list.  But  the human capital picture (qualifications and skills) is now looking more like the social capital picture…
Read More

How to count training, and explain the results

There' a rather curious thing about our attitudes to training.  On the one hand, an endless mantra about a high-skill economy, and how we need to push up skills training.  On the other hand we seem not to care very much about how we should be measuring training so that we understand better what we do and don't know about it.  We tend to use very crude measures which tell us about the proportion of people participating over a given period, and not much else. How there's a very welcome contribution to the training debate, from Francis Green and colleagues at LLAKES,  which goes well beyond this.  It looks at…
Read More

Men and choice

Since I have to rewrite my  PP book completely (a difficult verdict  to swallow from a publisher, but one I now recognise as correct), I've been doing some further interviews, or conversations as I prefer to think of them .   My latest respondent described to me the remarkable case  of her father, a senior engineer who chose to leave his job and be the main parent for his four girls, while his wife took up her career as a teacher.  This was not for financial reasons - the father would have earned more, even though the mother ended up a headteacher- - but simply because the couple decided that…
Read More

ages and cohorts

  On Monday evening I went to an interesting meeting on older women and politics, at my old stomping ground Birkbeck (never miss an opportunity to promote it).  The event was convened by  two political scientists, Joni Lovenduski and Rosie Campbell.  They showed some evidence on  older women's political attitudes, voting patterns and other issues, eg on retirement age.   Older women (already retired) are apparently more opposed to the raising of the State Pension Age than their younger counterparts.  Rosie interpreted this as a sign of altruism (i.e. these older women didn't want the next generation to have to work longer);  I thought it could be looked at differently, that…
Read More

Gender job splitting

Some familiar-but-important and some new material from a discussion on a new report today from the TUC/Work Foundation, on the Gender Jobs Split. The familiar was about the dismal and depressing overall levels of youth unemployment, and their probable long-term impact on the futures of this generation.   Familiar too, but in a different sense, is the way young women and men go into their separate groups of occupations - the difference being that many of the commentators expressed surprise (as well as dismay) at how little things have changed on this over the decades.  Ian Brinkley described progress on gender desegregation as 'glacial';  others went further and suggested that the…
Read More

Great Gatsby curve

    Ever heard of the Great Gatsby curve?  Nor had I (or should that be, I hadn't)  until I went to a seminar yesterday, and was told that it has             been getting the attention of some important people, including the White House - though whether that includes the actual Person in the White House is not sure. Anyway, the GGC shows a relationship between growing inequality on the one hand and diminishing social mobility (SM) on the other.  This makes pretty good intuitive sense, and also appeals to me politically, ie it's another black mark against increasing inequality.  But the presenter at the…
Read More

Saudi drivers, and more on the WEF Gender Gap report

Women in Saudi Arabia want to be free to drive their cars.  There's a surprise.  From what I've read on the events of the last couple of days (which is not a lot), there has been a kind of Mexican stand-off, with the authorities not enforcing their ban on women drivers and the women not pushing it too far.  But this does look like some kind of crack opening up, which will be hard to paper over. This takes me back to the World Economic Forum's stimulating and rich Gender Gap report.  I posted on this yesterday, so you'll of course remember that it uses 4 dimensions - economics, education, health…
Read More

WEF Gender Index

From the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap  report comes some heavy duty and intriguing indicator work on progress towards gender equality in four areas:  the economy, health, education and politics.  I'm not a serious numbers person (more's the pity), but you can get the essence of the report quite easily, and then spend as long as your inclination or capacity allows you digging around in the detail, including in the 136 individual country reports.  Here's my go at extracting the overall picture, and then a few nuggets.  Maybe more in a later post. For each of the four 'pillars' the report uses a number of indicators to measure equality between…
Read More

whose jobs?

There's a long-running debate about what the impact of new technology is on skills at work.   Routine  jobs are liable to automation and/or outsourcing to countries where labour is cheaper.  But how far are less routine jobs beaching vulnerable to the same processes? Which kinds of jobs get automated is obviously relevant to the PP.    Will they be in the occupations where it's mostly women that work?  What will happen to the kinds of jobs that women mainly do?   I've been reading (parts of) a pretty strenuous piece on this by Carl Frey and Michael Osborne from the Oxford Martin School, called The Future of Employment:  how…
Read More

Attention on part-time work

I gave a small - very small, attendance about a dozen - seminar  on the PP recently at the Institute of Education.  A clever press release, not written by me, gained a lot of coverage - including the illustration below for the Peter Principle, which made me chuckle. What captured attention was the argument that only if more men work part-time  will part-time work become more recognised as a legitimate career option.  Is this a pessimistic argument, or a realistic one?   I know that friends of mine firmly believe that the only way to go is full-time.  But my argument is that the progress towards greater equality at work…
Read More

Honours crossover

Today marks another crossover point:  for the first time more women than men received honours from the Queen.   This must in part be a result of   the educational crossovers that have seen women move steadily ahead in qualifications.    In other words,   it's some reflection of  how women are appearing more in significant positions at work.  Of course women have always figured in the voluntary sector section of the honours list, and received some measure of recognition there - even though at the low end of the honours satis list.  But  the human capital picture (qualifications and skills) is now looking more like the social capital picture…
Read More

How to count training, and explain the results

There' a rather curious thing about our attitudes to training.  On the one hand, an endless mantra about a high-skill economy, and how we need to push up skills training.  On the other hand we seem not to care very much about how we should be measuring training so that we understand better what we do and don't know about it.  We tend to use very crude measures which tell us about the proportion of people participating over a given period, and not much else. How there's a very welcome contribution to the training debate, from Francis Green and colleagues at LLAKES,  which goes well beyond this.  It looks at…
Read More

Men and choice

Since I have to rewrite my  PP book completely (a difficult verdict  to swallow from a publisher, but one I now recognise as correct), I've been doing some further interviews, or conversations as I prefer to think of them .   My latest respondent described to me the remarkable case  of her father, a senior engineer who chose to leave his job and be the main parent for his four girls, while his wife took up her career as a teacher.  This was not for financial reasons - the father would have earned more, even though the mother ended up a headteacher- - but simply because the couple decided that…
Read More

ages and cohorts

  On Monday evening I went to an interesting meeting on older women and politics, at my old stomping ground Birkbeck (never miss an opportunity to promote it).  The event was convened by  two political scientists, Joni Lovenduski and Rosie Campbell.  They showed some evidence on  older women's political attitudes, voting patterns and other issues, eg on retirement age.   Older women (already retired) are apparently more opposed to the raising of the State Pension Age than their younger counterparts.  Rosie interpreted this as a sign of altruism (i.e. these older women didn't want the next generation to have to work longer);  I thought it could be looked at differently, that…
Read More

Gender job splitting

Some familiar-but-important and some new material from a discussion on a new report today from the TUC/Work Foundation, on the Gender Jobs Split. The familiar was about the dismal and depressing overall levels of youth unemployment, and their probable long-term impact on the futures of this generation.   Familiar too, but in a different sense, is the way young women and men go into their separate groups of occupations - the difference being that many of the commentators expressed surprise (as well as dismay) at how little things have changed on this over the decades.  Ian Brinkley described progress on gender desegregation as 'glacial';  others went further and suggested that the…
Read More

Great Gatsby curve

    Ever heard of the Great Gatsby curve?  Nor had I (or should that be, I hadn't)  until I went to a seminar yesterday, and was told that it has             been getting the attention of some important people, including the White House - though whether that includes the actual Person in the White House is not sure. Anyway, the GGC shows a relationship between growing inequality on the one hand and diminishing social mobility (SM) on the other.  This makes pretty good intuitive sense, and also appeals to me politically, ie it's another black mark against increasing inequality.  But the presenter at the…
Read More

Saudi drivers, and more on the WEF Gender Gap report

Women in Saudi Arabia want to be free to drive their cars.  There's a surprise.  From what I've read on the events of the last couple of days (which is not a lot), there has been a kind of Mexican stand-off, with the authorities not enforcing their ban on women drivers and the women not pushing it too far.  But this does look like some kind of crack opening up, which will be hard to paper over. This takes me back to the World Economic Forum's stimulating and rich Gender Gap report.  I posted on this yesterday, so you'll of course remember that it uses 4 dimensions - economics, education, health…
Read More

WEF Gender Index

From the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap  report comes some heavy duty and intriguing indicator work on progress towards gender equality in four areas:  the economy, health, education and politics.  I'm not a serious numbers person (more's the pity), but you can get the essence of the report quite easily, and then spend as long as your inclination or capacity allows you digging around in the detail, including in the 136 individual country reports.  Here's my go at extracting the overall picture, and then a few nuggets.  Maybe more in a later post. For each of the four 'pillars' the report uses a number of indicators to measure equality between…
Read More

whose jobs?

There's a long-running debate about what the impact of new technology is on skills at work.   Routine  jobs are liable to automation and/or outsourcing to countries where labour is cheaper.  But how far are less routine jobs beaching vulnerable to the same processes? Which kinds of jobs get automated is obviously relevant to the PP.    Will they be in the occupations where it's mostly women that work?  What will happen to the kinds of jobs that women mainly do?   I've been reading (parts of) a pretty strenuous piece on this by Carl Frey and Michael Osborne from the Oxford Martin School, called The Future of Employment:  how…
Read More

Attention on part-time work

I gave a small - very small, attendance about a dozen - seminar  on the PP recently at the Institute of Education.  A clever press release, not written by me, gained a lot of coverage - including the illustration below for the Peter Principle, which made me chuckle. What captured attention was the argument that only if more men work part-time  will part-time work become more recognised as a legitimate career option.  Is this a pessimistic argument, or a realistic one?   I know that friends of mine firmly believe that the only way to go is full-time.  But my argument is that the progress towards greater equality at work…
Read More

Honours crossover

Today marks another crossover point:  for the first time more women than men received honours from the Queen.   This must in part be a result of   the educational crossovers that have seen women move steadily ahead in qualifications.    In other words,   it's some reflection of  how women are appearing more in significant positions at work.  Of course women have always figured in the voluntary sector section of the honours list, and received some measure of recognition there - even though at the low end of the honours satis list.  But  the human capital picture (qualifications and skills) is now looking more like the social capital picture…
Read More

How to count training, and explain the results

There' a rather curious thing about our attitudes to training.  On the one hand, an endless mantra about a high-skill economy, and how we need to push up skills training.  On the other hand we seem not to care very much about how we should be measuring training so that we understand better what we do and don't know about it.  We tend to use very crude measures which tell us about the proportion of people participating over a given period, and not much else. How there's a very welcome contribution to the training debate, from Francis Green and colleagues at LLAKES,  which goes well beyond this.  It looks at…
Read More

Men and choice

Since I have to rewrite my  PP book completely (a difficult verdict  to swallow from a publisher, but one I now recognise as correct), I've been doing some further interviews, or conversations as I prefer to think of them .   My latest respondent described to me the remarkable case  of her father, a senior engineer who chose to leave his job and be the main parent for his four girls, while his wife took up her career as a teacher.  This was not for financial reasons - the father would have earned more, even though the mother ended up a headteacher- - but simply because the couple decided that…
Read More

ages and cohorts

  On Monday evening I went to an interesting meeting on older women and politics, at my old stomping ground Birkbeck (never miss an opportunity to promote it).  The event was convened by  two political scientists, Joni Lovenduski and Rosie Campbell.  They showed some evidence on  older women's political attitudes, voting patterns and other issues, eg on retirement age.   Older women (already retired) are apparently more opposed to the raising of the State Pension Age than their younger counterparts.  Rosie interpreted this as a sign of altruism (i.e. these older women didn't want the next generation to have to work longer);  I thought it could be looked at differently, that…
Read More

Gender job splitting

Some familiar-but-important and some new material from a discussion on a new report today from the TUC/Work Foundation, on the Gender Jobs Split. The familiar was about the dismal and depressing overall levels of youth unemployment, and their probable long-term impact on the futures of this generation.   Familiar too, but in a different sense, is the way young women and men go into their separate groups of occupations - the difference being that many of the commentators expressed surprise (as well as dismay) at how little things have changed on this over the decades.  Ian Brinkley described progress on gender desegregation as 'glacial';  others went further and suggested that the…
Read More

Great Gatsby curve

    Ever heard of the Great Gatsby curve?  Nor had I (or should that be, I hadn't)  until I went to a seminar yesterday, and was told that it has             been getting the attention of some important people, including the White House - though whether that includes the actual Person in the White House is not sure. Anyway, the GGC shows a relationship between growing inequality on the one hand and diminishing social mobility (SM) on the other.  This makes pretty good intuitive sense, and also appeals to me politically, ie it's another black mark against increasing inequality.  But the presenter at the…
Read More

Saudi drivers, and more on the WEF Gender Gap report

Women in Saudi Arabia want to be free to drive their cars.  There's a surprise.  From what I've read on the events of the last couple of days (which is not a lot), there has been a kind of Mexican stand-off, with the authorities not enforcing their ban on women drivers and the women not pushing it too far.  But this does look like some kind of crack opening up, which will be hard to paper over. This takes me back to the World Economic Forum's stimulating and rich Gender Gap report.  I posted on this yesterday, so you'll of course remember that it uses 4 dimensions - economics, education, health…
Read More

WEF Gender Index

From the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap  report comes some heavy duty and intriguing indicator work on progress towards gender equality in four areas:  the economy, health, education and politics.  I'm not a serious numbers person (more's the pity), but you can get the essence of the report quite easily, and then spend as long as your inclination or capacity allows you digging around in the detail, including in the 136 individual country reports.  Here's my go at extracting the overall picture, and then a few nuggets.  Maybe more in a later post. For each of the four 'pillars' the report uses a number of indicators to measure equality between…
Read More

whose jobs?

There's a long-running debate about what the impact of new technology is on skills at work.   Routine  jobs are liable to automation and/or outsourcing to countries where labour is cheaper.  But how far are less routine jobs beaching vulnerable to the same processes? Which kinds of jobs get automated is obviously relevant to the PP.    Will they be in the occupations where it's mostly women that work?  What will happen to the kinds of jobs that women mainly do?   I've been reading (parts of) a pretty strenuous piece on this by Carl Frey and Michael Osborne from the Oxford Martin School, called The Future of Employment:  how…
Read More

Attention on part-time work

I gave a small - very small, attendance about a dozen - seminar  on the PP recently at the Institute of Education.  A clever press release, not written by me, gained a lot of coverage - including the illustration below for the Peter Principle, which made me chuckle. What captured attention was the argument that only if more men work part-time  will part-time work become more recognised as a legitimate career option.  Is this a pessimistic argument, or a realistic one?   I know that friends of mine firmly believe that the only way to go is full-time.  But my argument is that the progress towards greater equality at work…
Read More

Honours crossover

Today marks another crossover point:  for the first time more women than men received honours from the Queen.   This must in part be a result of   the educational crossovers that have seen women move steadily ahead in qualifications.    In other words,   it's some reflection of  how women are appearing more in significant positions at work.  Of course women have always figured in the voluntary sector section of the honours list, and received some measure of recognition there - even though at the low end of the honours satis list.  But  the human capital picture (qualifications and skills) is now looking more like the social capital picture…
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How to count training, and explain the results

There' a rather curious thing about our attitudes to training.  On the one hand, an endless mantra about a high-skill economy, and how we need to push up skills training.  On the other hand we seem not to care very much about how we should be measuring training so that we understand better what we do and don't know about it.  We tend to use very crude measures which tell us about the proportion of people participating over a given period, and not much else. How there's a very welcome contribution to the training debate, from Francis Green and colleagues at LLAKES,  which goes well beyond this.  It looks at…
Read More

Men and choice

Since I have to rewrite my  PP book completely (a difficult verdict  to swallow from a publisher, but one I now recognise as correct), I've been doing some further interviews, or conversations as I prefer to think of them .   My latest respondent described to me the remarkable case  of her father, a senior engineer who chose to leave his job and be the main parent for his four girls, while his wife took up her career as a teacher.  This was not for financial reasons - the father would have earned more, even though the mother ended up a headteacher- - but simply because the couple decided that…
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ages and cohorts

  On Monday evening I went to an interesting meeting on older women and politics, at my old stomping ground Birkbeck (never miss an opportunity to promote it).  The event was convened by  two political scientists, Joni Lovenduski and Rosie Campbell.  They showed some evidence on  older women's political attitudes, voting patterns and other issues, eg on retirement age.   Older women (already retired) are apparently more opposed to the raising of the State Pension Age than their younger counterparts.  Rosie interpreted this as a sign of altruism (i.e. these older women didn't want the next generation to have to work longer);  I thought it could be looked at differently, that…
Read More

Gender job splitting

Some familiar-but-important and some new material from a discussion on a new report today from the TUC/Work Foundation, on the Gender Jobs Split. The familiar was about the dismal and depressing overall levels of youth unemployment, and their probable long-term impact on the futures of this generation.   Familiar too, but in a different sense, is the way young women and men go into their separate groups of occupations - the difference being that many of the commentators expressed surprise (as well as dismay) at how little things have changed on this over the decades.  Ian Brinkley described progress on gender desegregation as 'glacial';  others went further and suggested that the…
Read More

Great Gatsby curve

    Ever heard of the Great Gatsby curve?  Nor had I (or should that be, I hadn't)  until I went to a seminar yesterday, and was told that it has             been getting the attention of some important people, including the White House - though whether that includes the actual Person in the White House is not sure. Anyway, the GGC shows a relationship between growing inequality on the one hand and diminishing social mobility (SM) on the other.  This makes pretty good intuitive sense, and also appeals to me politically, ie it's another black mark against increasing inequality.  But the presenter at the…
Read More

Saudi drivers, and more on the WEF Gender Gap report

Women in Saudi Arabia want to be free to drive their cars.  There's a surprise.  From what I've read on the events of the last couple of days (which is not a lot), there has been a kind of Mexican stand-off, with the authorities not enforcing their ban on women drivers and the women not pushing it too far.  But this does look like some kind of crack opening up, which will be hard to paper over. This takes me back to the World Economic Forum's stimulating and rich Gender Gap report.  I posted on this yesterday, so you'll of course remember that it uses 4 dimensions - economics, education, health…
Read More

WEF Gender Index

From the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap  report comes some heavy duty and intriguing indicator work on progress towards gender equality in four areas:  the economy, health, education and politics.  I'm not a serious numbers person (more's the pity), but you can get the essence of the report quite easily, and then spend as long as your inclination or capacity allows you digging around in the detail, including in the 136 individual country reports.  Here's my go at extracting the overall picture, and then a few nuggets.  Maybe more in a later post. For each of the four 'pillars' the report uses a number of indicators to measure equality between…
Read More

whose jobs?

There's a long-running debate about what the impact of new technology is on skills at work.   Routine  jobs are liable to automation and/or outsourcing to countries where labour is cheaper.  But how far are less routine jobs beaching vulnerable to the same processes? Which kinds of jobs get automated is obviously relevant to the PP.    Will they be in the occupations where it's mostly women that work?  What will happen to the kinds of jobs that women mainly do?   I've been reading (parts of) a pretty strenuous piece on this by Carl Frey and Michael Osborne from the Oxford Martin School, called The Future of Employment:  how…
Read More

Attention on part-time work

I gave a small - very small, attendance about a dozen - seminar  on the PP recently at the Institute of Education.  A clever press release, not written by me, gained a lot of coverage - including the illustration below for the Peter Principle, which made me chuckle. What captured attention was the argument that only if more men work part-time  will part-time work become more recognised as a legitimate career option.  Is this a pessimistic argument, or a realistic one?   I know that friends of mine firmly believe that the only way to go is full-time.  But my argument is that the progress towards greater equality at work…
Read More

Honours crossover

Today marks another crossover point:  for the first time more women than men received honours from the Queen.   This must in part be a result of   the educational crossovers that have seen women move steadily ahead in qualifications.    In other words,   it's some reflection of  how women are appearing more in significant positions at work.  Of course women have always figured in the voluntary sector section of the honours list, and received some measure of recognition there - even though at the low end of the honours satis list.  But  the human capital picture (qualifications and skills) is now looking more like the social capital picture…
Read More

How to count training, and explain the results

There' a rather curious thing about our attitudes to training.  On the one hand, an endless mantra about a high-skill economy, and how we need to push up skills training.  On the other hand we seem not to care very much about how we should be measuring training so that we understand better what we do and don't know about it.  We tend to use very crude measures which tell us about the proportion of people participating over a given period, and not much else. How there's a very welcome contribution to the training debate, from Francis Green and colleagues at LLAKES,  which goes well beyond this.  It looks at…
Read More

Men and choice

Since I have to rewrite my  PP book completely (a difficult verdict  to swallow from a publisher, but one I now recognise as correct), I've been doing some further interviews, or conversations as I prefer to think of them .   My latest respondent described to me the remarkable case  of her father, a senior engineer who chose to leave his job and be the main parent for his four girls, while his wife took up her career as a teacher.  This was not for financial reasons - the father would have earned more, even though the mother ended up a headteacher- - but simply because the couple decided that…
Read More

ages and cohorts

  On Monday evening I went to an interesting meeting on older women and politics, at my old stomping ground Birkbeck (never miss an opportunity to promote it).  The event was convened by  two political scientists, Joni Lovenduski and Rosie Campbell.  They showed some evidence on  older women's political attitudes, voting patterns and other issues, eg on retirement age.   Older women (already retired) are apparently more opposed to the raising of the State Pension Age than their younger counterparts.  Rosie interpreted this as a sign of altruism (i.e. these older women didn't want the next generation to have to work longer);  I thought it could be looked at differently, that…
Read More

Gender job splitting

Some familiar-but-important and some new material from a discussion on a new report today from the TUC/Work Foundation, on the Gender Jobs Split. The familiar was about the dismal and depressing overall levels of youth unemployment, and their probable long-term impact on the futures of this generation.   Familiar too, but in a different sense, is the way young women and men go into their separate groups of occupations - the difference being that many of the commentators expressed surprise (as well as dismay) at how little things have changed on this over the decades.  Ian Brinkley described progress on gender desegregation as 'glacial';  others went further and suggested that the…
Read More

Great Gatsby curve

    Ever heard of the Great Gatsby curve?  Nor had I (or should that be, I hadn't)  until I went to a seminar yesterday, and was told that it has             been getting the attention of some important people, including the White House - though whether that includes the actual Person in the White House is not sure. Anyway, the GGC shows a relationship between growing inequality on the one hand and diminishing social mobility (SM) on the other.  This makes pretty good intuitive sense, and also appeals to me politically, ie it's another black mark against increasing inequality.  But the presenter at the…
Read More

Saudi drivers, and more on the WEF Gender Gap report

Women in Saudi Arabia want to be free to drive their cars.  There's a surprise.  From what I've read on the events of the last couple of days (which is not a lot), there has been a kind of Mexican stand-off, with the authorities not enforcing their ban on women drivers and the women not pushing it too far.  But this does look like some kind of crack opening up, which will be hard to paper over. This takes me back to the World Economic Forum's stimulating and rich Gender Gap report.  I posted on this yesterday, so you'll of course remember that it uses 4 dimensions - economics, education, health…
Read More

WEF Gender Index

From the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap  report comes some heavy duty and intriguing indicator work on progress towards gender equality in four areas:  the economy, health, education and politics.  I'm not a serious numbers person (more's the pity), but you can get the essence of the report quite easily, and then spend as long as your inclination or capacity allows you digging around in the detail, including in the 136 individual country reports.  Here's my go at extracting the overall picture, and then a few nuggets.  Maybe more in a later post. For each of the four 'pillars' the report uses a number of indicators to measure equality between…
Read More

whose jobs?

There's a long-running debate about what the impact of new technology is on skills at work.   Routine  jobs are liable to automation and/or outsourcing to countries where labour is cheaper.  But how far are less routine jobs beaching vulnerable to the same processes? Which kinds of jobs get automated is obviously relevant to the PP.    Will they be in the occupations where it's mostly women that work?  What will happen to the kinds of jobs that women mainly do?   I've been reading (parts of) a pretty strenuous piece on this by Carl Frey and Michael Osborne from the Oxford Martin School, called The Future of Employment:  how…
Read More

Attention on part-time work

I gave a small - very small, attendance about a dozen - seminar  on the PP recently at the Institute of Education.  A clever press release, not written by me, gained a lot of coverage - including the illustration below for the Peter Principle, which made me chuckle. What captured attention was the argument that only if more men work part-time  will part-time work become more recognised as a legitimate career option.  Is this a pessimistic argument, or a realistic one?   I know that friends of mine firmly believe that the only way to go is full-time.  But my argument is that the progress towards greater equality at work…
Read More

Honours crossover

Today marks another crossover point:  for the first time more women than men received honours from the Queen.   This must in part be a result of   the educational crossovers that have seen women move steadily ahead in qualifications.    In other words,   it's some reflection of  how women are appearing more in significant positions at work.  Of course women have always figured in the voluntary sector section of the honours list, and received some measure of recognition there - even though at the low end of the honours satis list.  But  the human capital picture (qualifications and skills) is now looking more like the social capital picture…
Read More

How to count training, and explain the results

There' a rather curious thing about our attitudes to training.  On the one hand, an endless mantra about a high-skill economy, and how we need to push up skills training.  On the other hand we seem not to care very much about how we should be measuring training so that we understand better what we do and don't know about it.  We tend to use very crude measures which tell us about the proportion of people participating over a given period, and not much else. How there's a very welcome contribution to the training debate, from Francis Green and colleagues at LLAKES,  which goes well beyond this.  It looks at…
Read More

Men and choice

Since I have to rewrite my  PP book completely (a difficult verdict  to swallow from a publisher, but one I now recognise as correct), I've been doing some further interviews, or conversations as I prefer to think of them .   My latest respondent described to me the remarkable case  of her father, a senior engineer who chose to leave his job and be the main parent for his four girls, while his wife took up her career as a teacher.  This was not for financial reasons - the father would have earned more, even though the mother ended up a headteacher- - but simply because the couple decided that…
Read More

ages and cohorts

  On Monday evening I went to an interesting meeting on older women and politics, at my old stomping ground Birkbeck (never miss an opportunity to promote it).  The event was convened by  two political scientists, Joni Lovenduski and Rosie Campbell.  They showed some evidence on  older women's political attitudes, voting patterns and other issues, eg on retirement age.   Older women (already retired) are apparently more opposed to the raising of the State Pension Age than their younger counterparts.  Rosie interpreted this as a sign of altruism (i.e. these older women didn't want the next generation to have to work longer);  I thought it could be looked at differently, that…
Read More

Gender job splitting

Some familiar-but-important and some new material from a discussion on a new report today from the TUC/Work Foundation, on the Gender Jobs Split. The familiar was about the dismal and depressing overall levels of youth unemployment, and their probable long-term impact on the futures of this generation.   Familiar too, but in a different sense, is the way young women and men go into their separate groups of occupations - the difference being that many of the commentators expressed surprise (as well as dismay) at how little things have changed on this over the decades.  Ian Brinkley described progress on gender desegregation as 'glacial';  others went further and suggested that the…
Read More

Great Gatsby curve

    Ever heard of the Great Gatsby curve?  Nor had I (or should that be, I hadn't)  until I went to a seminar yesterday, and was told that it has             been getting the attention of some important people, including the White House - though whether that includes the actual Person in the White House is not sure. Anyway, the GGC shows a relationship between growing inequality on the one hand and diminishing social mobility (SM) on the other.  This makes pretty good intuitive sense, and also appeals to me politically, ie it's another black mark against increasing inequality.  But the presenter at the…
Read More

Saudi drivers, and more on the WEF Gender Gap report

Women in Saudi Arabia want to be free to drive their cars.  There's a surprise.  From what I've read on the events of the last couple of days (which is not a lot), there has been a kind of Mexican stand-off, with the authorities not enforcing their ban on women drivers and the women not pushing it too far.  But this does look like some kind of crack opening up, which will be hard to paper over. This takes me back to the World Economic Forum's stimulating and rich Gender Gap report.  I posted on this yesterday, so you'll of course remember that it uses 4 dimensions - economics, education, health…
Read More

WEF Gender Index

From the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap  report comes some heavy duty and intriguing indicator work on progress towards gender equality in four areas:  the economy, health, education and politics.  I'm not a serious numbers person (more's the pity), but you can get the essence of the report quite easily, and then spend as long as your inclination or capacity allows you digging around in the detail, including in the 136 individual country reports.  Here's my go at extracting the overall picture, and then a few nuggets.  Maybe more in a later post. For each of the four 'pillars' the report uses a number of indicators to measure equality between…
Read More

whose jobs?

There's a long-running debate about what the impact of new technology is on skills at work.   Routine  jobs are liable to automation and/or outsourcing to countries where labour is cheaper.  But how far are less routine jobs beaching vulnerable to the same processes? Which kinds of jobs get automated is obviously relevant to the PP.    Will they be in the occupations where it's mostly women that work?  What will happen to the kinds of jobs that women mainly do?   I've been reading (parts of) a pretty strenuous piece on this by Carl Frey and Michael Osborne from the Oxford Martin School, called The Future of Employment:  how…
Read More

Attention on part-time work

I gave a small - very small, attendance about a dozen - seminar  on the PP recently at the Institute of Education.  A clever press release, not written by me, gained a lot of coverage - including the illustration below for the Peter Principle, which made me chuckle. What captured attention was the argument that only if more men work part-time  will part-time work become more recognised as a legitimate career option.  Is this a pessimistic argument, or a realistic one?   I know that friends of mine firmly believe that the only way to go is full-time.  But my argument is that the progress towards greater equality at work…
Read More

Honours crossover

Today marks another crossover point:  for the first time more women than men received honours from the Queen.   This must in part be a result of   the educational crossovers that have seen women move steadily ahead in qualifications.    In other words,   it's some reflection of  how women are appearing more in significant positions at work.  Of course women have always figured in the voluntary sector section of the honours list, and received some measure of recognition there - even though at the low end of the honours satis list.  But  the human capital picture (qualifications and skills) is now looking more like the social capital picture…
Read More

How to count training, and explain the results

There' a rather curious thing about our attitudes to training.  On the one hand, an endless mantra about a high-skill economy, and how we need to push up skills training.  On the other hand we seem not to care very much about how we should be measuring training so that we understand better what we do and don't know about it.  We tend to use very crude measures which tell us about the proportion of people participating over a given period, and not much else. How there's a very welcome contribution to the training debate, from Francis Green and colleagues at LLAKES,  which goes well beyond this.  It looks at…
Read More

Men and choice

Since I have to rewrite my  PP book completely (a difficult verdict  to swallow from a publisher, but one I now recognise as correct), I've been doing some further interviews, or conversations as I prefer to think of them .   My latest respondent described to me the remarkable case  of her father, a senior engineer who chose to leave his job and be the main parent for his four girls, while his wife took up her career as a teacher.  This was not for financial reasons - the father would have earned more, even though the mother ended up a headteacher- - but simply because the couple decided that…
Read More

ages and cohorts

  On Monday evening I went to an interesting meeting on older women and politics, at my old stomping ground Birkbeck (never miss an opportunity to promote it).  The event was convened by  two political scientists, Joni Lovenduski and Rosie Campbell.  They showed some evidence on  older women's political attitudes, voting patterns and other issues, eg on retirement age.   Older women (already retired) are apparently more opposed to the raising of the State Pension Age than their younger counterparts.  Rosie interpreted this as a sign of altruism (i.e. these older women didn't want the next generation to have to work longer);  I thought it could be looked at differently, that…
Read More

Gender job splitting

Some familiar-but-important and some new material from a discussion on a new report today from the TUC/Work Foundation, on the Gender Jobs Split. The familiar was about the dismal and depressing overall levels of youth unemployment, and their probable long-term impact on the futures of this generation.   Familiar too, but in a different sense, is the way young women and men go into their separate groups of occupations - the difference being that many of the commentators expressed surprise (as well as dismay) at how little things have changed on this over the decades.  Ian Brinkley described progress on gender desegregation as 'glacial';  others went further and suggested that the…
Read More

Great Gatsby curve

    Ever heard of the Great Gatsby curve?  Nor had I (or should that be, I hadn't)  until I went to a seminar yesterday, and was told that it has             been getting the attention of some important people, including the White House - though whether that includes the actual Person in the White House is not sure. Anyway, the GGC shows a relationship between growing inequality on the one hand and diminishing social mobility (SM) on the other.  This makes pretty good intuitive sense, and also appeals to me politically, ie it's another black mark against increasing inequality.  But the presenter at the…
Read More

Saudi drivers, and more on the WEF Gender Gap report

Women in Saudi Arabia want to be free to drive their cars.  There's a surprise.  From what I've read on the events of the last couple of days (which is not a lot), there has been a kind of Mexican stand-off, with the authorities not enforcing their ban on women drivers and the women not pushing it too far.  But this does look like some kind of crack opening up, which will be hard to paper over. This takes me back to the World Economic Forum's stimulating and rich Gender Gap report.  I posted on this yesterday, so you'll of course remember that it uses 4 dimensions - economics, education, health…
Read More

WEF Gender Index

From the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap  report comes some heavy duty and intriguing indicator work on progress towards gender equality in four areas:  the economy, health, education and politics.  I'm not a serious numbers person (more's the pity), but you can get the essence of the report quite easily, and then spend as long as your inclination or capacity allows you digging around in the detail, including in the 136 individual country reports.  Here's my go at extracting the overall picture, and then a few nuggets.  Maybe more in a later post. For each of the four 'pillars' the report uses a number of indicators to measure equality between…
Read More

whose jobs?

There's a long-running debate about what the impact of new technology is on skills at work.   Routine  jobs are liable to automation and/or outsourcing to countries where labour is cheaper.  But how far are less routine jobs beaching vulnerable to the same processes? Which kinds of jobs get automated is obviously relevant to the PP.    Will they be in the occupations where it's mostly women that work?  What will happen to the kinds of jobs that women mainly do?   I've been reading (parts of) a pretty strenuous piece on this by Carl Frey and Michael Osborne from the Oxford Martin School, called The Future of Employment:  how…
Read More

Attention on part-time work

I gave a small - very small, attendance about a dozen - seminar  on the PP recently at the Institute of Education.  A clever press release, not written by me, gained a lot of coverage - including the illustration below for the Peter Principle, which made me chuckle. What captured attention was the argument that only if more men work part-time  will part-time work become more recognised as a legitimate career option.  Is this a pessimistic argument, or a realistic one?   I know that friends of mine firmly believe that the only way to go is full-time.  But my argument is that the progress towards greater equality at work…
Read More

Honours crossover

Today marks another crossover point:  for the first time more women than men received honours from the Queen.   This must in part be a result of   the educational crossovers that have seen women move steadily ahead in qualifications.    In other words,   it's some reflection of  how women are appearing more in significant positions at work.  Of course women have always figured in the voluntary sector section of the honours list, and received some measure of recognition there - even though at the low end of the honours satis list.  But  the human capital picture (qualifications and skills) is now looking more like the social capital picture…
Read More

How to count training, and explain the results

There' a rather curious thing about our attitudes to training.  On the one hand, an endless mantra about a high-skill economy, and how we need to push up skills training.  On the other hand we seem not to care very much about how we should be measuring training so that we understand better what we do and don't know about it.  We tend to use very crude measures which tell us about the proportion of people participating over a given period, and not much else. How there's a very welcome contribution to the training debate, from Francis Green and colleagues at LLAKES,  which goes well beyond this.  It looks at…
Read More

Men and choice

Since I have to rewrite my  PP book completely (a difficult verdict  to swallow from a publisher, but one I now recognise as correct), I've been doing some further interviews, or conversations as I prefer to think of them .   My latest respondent described to me the remarkable case  of her father, a senior engineer who chose to leave his job and be the main parent for his four girls, while his wife took up her career as a teacher.  This was not for financial reasons - the father would have earned more, even though the mother ended up a headteacher- - but simply because the couple decided that…
Read More

ages and cohorts

  On Monday evening I went to an interesting meeting on older women and politics, at my old stomping ground Birkbeck (never miss an opportunity to promote it).  The event was convened by  two political scientists, Joni Lovenduski and Rosie Campbell.  They showed some evidence on  older women's political attitudes, voting patterns and other issues, eg on retirement age.   Older women (already retired) are apparently more opposed to the raising of the State Pension Age than their younger counterparts.  Rosie interpreted this as a sign of altruism (i.e. these older women didn't want the next generation to have to work longer);  I thought it could be looked at differently, that…
Read More

Gender job splitting

Some familiar-but-important and some new material from a discussion on a new report today from the TUC/Work Foundation, on the Gender Jobs Split. The familiar was about the dismal and depressing overall levels of youth unemployment, and their probable long-term impact on the futures of this generation.   Familiar too, but in a different sense, is the way young women and men go into their separate groups of occupations - the difference being that many of the commentators expressed surprise (as well as dismay) at how little things have changed on this over the decades.  Ian Brinkley described progress on gender desegregation as 'glacial';  others went further and suggested that the…
Read More

Great Gatsby curve

    Ever heard of the Great Gatsby curve?  Nor had I (or should that be, I hadn't)  until I went to a seminar yesterday, and was told that it has             been getting the attention of some important people, including the White House - though whether that includes the actual Person in the White House is not sure. Anyway, the GGC shows a relationship between growing inequality on the one hand and diminishing social mobility (SM) on the other.  This makes pretty good intuitive sense, and also appeals to me politically, ie it's another black mark against increasing inequality.  But the presenter at the…
Read More

Saudi drivers, and more on the WEF Gender Gap report

Women in Saudi Arabia want to be free to drive their cars.  There's a surprise.  From what I've read on the events of the last couple of days (which is not a lot), there has been a kind of Mexican stand-off, with the authorities not enforcing their ban on women drivers and the women not pushing it too far.  But this does look like some kind of crack opening up, which will be hard to paper over. This takes me back to the World Economic Forum's stimulating and rich Gender Gap report.  I posted on this yesterday, so you'll of course remember that it uses 4 dimensions - economics, education, health…
Read More

WEF Gender Index

From the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap  report comes some heavy duty and intriguing indicator work on progress towards gender equality in four areas:  the economy, health, education and politics.  I'm not a serious numbers person (more's the pity), but you can get the essence of the report quite easily, and then spend as long as your inclination or capacity allows you digging around in the detail, including in the 136 individual country reports.  Here's my go at extracting the overall picture, and then a few nuggets.  Maybe more in a later post. For each of the four 'pillars' the report uses a number of indicators to measure equality between…
Read More