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The Middle East Beats the West In Female Tech Founders
PolygamousRanchKid writes with this except from the Economist: "Only 10% of internet entrepreneurs across the world are women, according to Startup Compass, a firm that tracks such things. Except in Amman and other Middle Eastern cities, it seems. There, the share of women entrepreneurs is said to average 35% — an estimate seemingly confirmed by the mix of the sexes at 'Mix'n'Mentor,' a recent gathering in the Jordanian capital organised by Wamda, an online publication for start-ups. Reasons abound, and they are not always positive, says Nina Curley, Wamda's editor. Although more than half of university graduates in many Middle Eastern countries (51% in Jordan) are women, the workforce is dominated by men (women provide only 21% of it overall, and a paltry 16% in Jordan). The internet, however, is a new space that is more meritocratic and not as heavily male. The technology also lets entrepreneurs work from home, making it easier to raise children."
France beats the UAE in implementation of Sharia Law. Take that, Islam!
Did you know that most jurisdictions around the world bias sex assault laws in favor of women?
India just saw this get passed: Only men can be booked for rape
In NSW Australia the NSW Crimes Act requires that a vagina or anus must be penetrated for it to be considered "sexual assault". So if someone fingers a drunk women and then gives a handjob to a drunk man: (there being no legal consent in either situation):
- violating the woman = "sexual assault" (Section 61I) = punishable by 14 years prison
- violating the man = "indecent assault" (Section 61L) = punishable by only 5 years prison