I was at the launch ceremony at Khazanah Research yesterday, and while the report doesn’t present anything new, it compiles all the various statistics domestically available into one document to present a holistic picture of Malaysian households.
You can download the report here.
Oh, and I love the new interactive socio-economic map of Malaysia!
Thanks go to @Inequality_MYS for the invite.
The Economist has an essay on one of the biggest social and demographic changes in history (excerpt):
Badly educated men in rich countries have not adapted well to trade, technology or feminism
…Tallulah may be an extreme example, but it is part of a story playing out across America and much of the rest of the rich world. In almost all societies a lot of men enjoy unwarranted advantages simply because of their sex. Much has been done over the past 50 years to put this injustice right; quite a bit still remains to be done.
The dead hand of male domination is a problem for women, for society as a whole—and for men like those of Tallulah. Their ideas of the world and their place in it are shaped by old assumptions about the special role and status due to men in the workplace and in the family, but they live in circumstances where those assumptions no longer apply. And they lack the resources of training, of imagination and of opportunity to adapt to the new demands. As a result, they miss out on a lot, both in economic terms and in personal ones.
This is for the US, but the pay gaps are similar though smaller in Malaysia (excerpt):
Gender Wage Gap in Eight Charts
Most women will never earn as much as men in their lifetimes.
In Wyoming, it will take 144 years for equal pay, according to a recent report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research that looked at trends in women’s employment and earnings. Other states with particularly high disparities included Louisiana, North Dakota and Utah. The state with the shortest wage gap, Florida, was still 23 years. And Washington, D.C. marks the best place for women’s employment and earnings, the report found, perhaps because it is small and urban. Still, the pay imbalance won’t close until 2055.
Tuesday marks national Equal Pay Day, an event from the National Committee on Pay Equity, a nonprofit advocacy group. The date represents how long into 2015 it would take a woman to earn what a man did in 2014.
This post is my catching up on various research and articles that I’ve bookmarked over the last few months on gender issues.
The World Bank has some new research briefs issued this week:
New Evidence Highlights What Works to Empower Girls and Young Women
Washington, August 11, 2014—Educating, empowering, and employing the largest-ever generation of young people is vital to ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity—the World Bank Group's twin corporate goals. New impact evaluation (IE) briefs by the World Bank Group (WBG), released ahead of International Youth Day 2014, shed new light on what works in development interventions targeting girls and young women, who still account for a disproportionate share of the world’s poor and face persistent inequalities at home, school, and work that help keep them and their families in poverty.
You can access the briefs through the article or through the World Bank’s gender resource site (here).
Women’s issues take centre stage in the latest issue of the IMF’s Finance and Development magazine (excerpt):
Women at Work
FINANCE & DEVELOPMENT, June 2013, Vol. 50, No. 2Reductions in gender disparity don’t translate to equal opportunity
One of the most dramatic developments in the 20th century was the entry of women into economic and political spheres previously occupied almost exclusively by men. Although women are making progress in eliminating gender disparities, they still lag men in the workplace and in the halls of government. These gaps are found throughout the world, but are particularly pronounced in developing economies. So far, the greatest success has been in reducing education and health disparities and the least in increasing women’s economic and political influence. Renowned scholars, leading institutions, global businesses, and a growing range of nongovernmental organizations stress the benefits of further reducing gender inequality to allow women to realize their full potential in economic activities and in civic life.
This issue of F&D examines women at work. It analyzes various aspects of women’s work experience—the gains that women have made in equalizing job opportunities and leadership roles and the challenges they still face to achieve genuine equality...
...These articles suggest that women are making progress in closing gender gaps in the economic and political spheres but that they are still far from achieving equity. These studies provide guidance for the design of policies to tap the full potential of women.
You can access the table of contents here.
Personally, I found the article on women economists the most interesting – a study of economist attitudes found that women tended to favour government intervention more than men do, especially on social issues. That leads to some interesting speculation – would overall policy direction and economic philosophies change when more women economists come into positions of influence?
From this weekend’s news (excerpt):
Why it pays to invest like a woman
DID you ever think testosterone could be a setback in successful investing, risk taking and trading among other aspects? According to a recent research, apparently too much of it is detrimental.
A man with an inlfated [sic] ego who asserts his alpha male dominance isn't a fantastic trader or investor.
The Motley Fool's Louann Lofton who authored the book: Warren Buffett Invests Like A Girl And Why You Should, Too, pointed out that psychologists and scientists concurred that women have the right temperament to help them achieve long-term success in the market.
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