Group items tagged

Status of women: shows that instead of protecting women, they blame them for their clothing.

Website about forests in Brazil Includes Brazil Forest Figures The Causes Future implications

This post will be the first of a two part series on gender inequality in the United States. Gender inequality is defined as the disparity in status, power and prestige between people who identify as women and men. Today I will look at how gender inequality still exists in the United States, despite our frequent unwillingness to acknowledge it.

When it comes to gender equality, Japan has no shortage of distressing figures. The statistics that are most often used to illustrate the nation's dismal status in this respect are the United Nations Development Program's Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM), which gauges equality by tracking women's participation in politics and business.

Nestlé is draining developing countries' groundwater to make its Pure Life bottled water, destroying countries' natural resources. Now Nestlé is moving into Pakistan and sucking up the local water supply, rendering entire areas uninhabitable in order to sell mineral-enriched water to the upper class as a status symbol, while the poor watch wells run dry and their children fall ill.