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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUN experts find level of discrimination against women in US “shocking”
http://www.euronews.com/2015/12/14/un-experts-find-level-of-discrimination-against-women-in-us-shockingThe US, which is a leading state in formulating international human rights standards, is allowing women to lag behind, said the human rights monitors, composing the UN expert group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice, at the end of an official visit to the country....
The mission examined the conditions for women in areas like economic and social life, access to health care, reproductive health and rights, as well as womens safety.
While all women are the victims of these missing rights, women who are poor, belong to Native American, Afro-American and Hispanic ethnic minorities, migrant women, LBTQ women, women with disabilities and older women are disparately vulnerable, the experts stressed.
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)focus a lot of attention on this.
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)Just not the one you support.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,629 posts)If Warren was running, I would have quit my job and lived in my car to volunteer for her campaign. I love Bernie, and I really like MOM, but Warren is my dream candidate. HRC, meh . . .
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Snobblevitch
(1,958 posts)in the U.S. with the loves of women in the middle east, southwest Asia, and most of Africa?
dumbcat
(2,120 posts)We are supposed to be a "developed" nation. They are our peers, not the ME, SEA, or Africa.
Snobblevitch
(1,958 posts)There are developed nations in the areas I posted. They might not be as developed as they could be, that's kind of my point.
dumbcat
(2,120 posts)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developed_country
See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Factbook_list_of_developed_countries
http://listverse.com/2012/02/13/top-10-highly-developed-countries/
http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/developed-countries.html
http://www.cfr.org/international-organizations-and-alliances/group-eight-g8-industrialized-nations/p10647
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)To attempt to diminish the issue?
Snobblevitch
(1,958 posts)niyad
(113,963 posts)complain, because we have it so great here compared to so many other places.
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)Of course the US is going to look good next to those places. They aren't liberal democracies with advanced economies, high levels of literacy and educational attainment, and high per-capita GDP. The only meaningful way to gauge social conditions is by comparison to similar countries.
GoCubsGo
(32,103 posts)The report says that discrimination here is worse than other developed countries. What if it's not much better than those non-developed countries? Maybe people need some perspective.