While there’s no substitute for regularly reading good newspapers and periodicals, there are several websites that provide particularly overviews of main issues, such as OneWorld.net:
OneWorld Guides
learn about developing countriesin our range of educational Guides
Thanks to Helen, for the link!
Task:
READ the guides, paying attention to the introductions used, for ideas on possible ways to start an essay.
Exerpts from a blog post I stumbled on (full post here), which highlights the less common take on gender discrimination:
Stereotyping girls as inferior to boys in any facet of life is “misogyny”; stereotyping boys as potential batterers and rapists is a public service announcement.
Boys are told they must never hit a girl, and they are given license to beat the crap out of other boys. Girls are told boys must never hit a girl, and they are given license to beat the crap out of boys.
When girls supposedly were behind boys in educational achievement, most men agreed there was a problem with the schools (even though there wasn’t); now that it’s clear boys really are behind girls in every indicia of educational achievement, women tell us the problem is the boys, the schools are just fine.
Women insist on total equality in every sphere of life, but snidely remark that any male who exits the elevator before they do has no manners.
[Question: Are chivalry and gender equality mutually exclusive?]
When underage teens have consensual sex, usually only one is convicted as a statutory rapist and, upon his release, required to register as a sex offender. Can you guess his gender?
Women label older men with younger women as “disgusting” and “dirty old men”; women label older women with younger men as “empowered.”
[case in point: the TV series 'The Cougar']
A teen girl who is statutorily raped can have an abortion if her rapist impregnates her; a teen boy who is statutorily raped will be forced to pay child support to his rapist if she decides to have the child. And if the boy doesn’t pay, he will be jailed as a “deadbeat dad.”
Facts and statistics
(from the same post, ‘Men have lost the battle of the sexes…because the opponent cheats’)
▲On average, women outlive men in developed countries by five or more years;
▲Men have higher death rates for all fifteen of the leading causes of death (except Alzheimer’s);
▲Men are approximately 50% of the workforce but account for 93% of job related deaths;
▲Males between 20 and 24 have a seven times greater rate of suicide than their female counterparts, and overall, men commit suicide at rates three to four times greater than women;
▲Innocent males are between 1.5 to 2 times more likely than females to be assaulted;
▲Government funding for breast cancer research outpaces funding for prostate cancer research by nearly two to one even though prostate cancer and breast cancer have roughly the same caseload;
▲Death among young men due to testicular cancer in the 15-34 age group outpaces the number of deaths from breast cancer among women in the same age group, but good luck trying to remember the last time a commercial entity raised awareness about testicular cancer;
▲Victims of war — both combatants and, yes, non-combatants — are more likely to be male;
▲Responsible young men are charged considerably more for auto insurance than irresponsible young women, simply because they were born male;
▲A woman who commits the same crime as a man will receive, on average, only a fraction of the sentence; and
▲During FY 2007, 158,935 names and addresses of suspected violators of the duty to register with the Selective Service System were provided to the Department of Justice for possible investigation and prosecution for their failure to register, carrying a penalty up to five years in prison — every one of the violators was male — because young women are exempt from even registering.
Question:
“Men have lost the battle of the sexes because the opponent cheats”. To what extent do you agree?
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