There have been a lot of features lately on the most liveable cities. Vancouver BC, Vienna, Melbourne, Toronto, and Helsinki have been at the top of the Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2010 list.
Sure, we care about if we can get out and hike easily from the city center, and the cost of living, and opportunities for education, but what about how much pay you’ll get as a woman in these cities? Which places show that they care about gender equality?
You know, what has made things abundantly clear for me is that in Norway, England, Canada, Denmark and Sweden they have had female prime ministers. Not so in America.
Perhaps if we really want less sexism and more pay parity, we need to look to those countries.
According to Wikipedia, customers are just biased to like white men more. They also suggest that what is required to solve the problem of wage inequality isn’t necessarily paying women more but changing customer biases. So how can we change our biases?
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I beg your pardon, but the assertion that Canada has not had a female prime minister is incorrect.
Kim Campbell served as the 19th Prime Minister of Canada.
Additionally — albeit considerably less generally referenced — Ellen Fairclough was Acting Prime Minister of Canada for a brief period in 1958.
Lastly, Sheila Copps was Deputy Prime Minister of Canada during the mid 1990s.
Dear Nate,
Thank you, I sit corrected. I will change the post.
Sincerely,
Mazarine