ABS Releases Gender Indicators and Ignores Male Disadvantage
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Today the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Australia’s so-called impartial statistical body released its Gender Indicators report: “a summary of gender specific data in six domains representing Economic security, Education, Health, Work and family balance, Safety and justice, and Democracy, governance and citizenship”.
The ABS produced a media release about the publication. This release could have noted that:
- Across the board males fare much worse than females in the education system – most notably being 24% less likely to be enrolled in a bachelor degree or above
- Across the board males fare much worse than females in the health arena – most notably suffering death rates from cancer, heart disease, suicide, motor vehicle accidents and drug abuse between 1.6 and 3.4 times higher
- Males are 12% more likely than females to feel their work and family responsibilities are rarely/ never in balance
- Males are almost twice as likely as females to have experienced violence during the last 12 months and one third more likely to be a victim of physical or threatened physical assault.
However, these facts were conveniently ignored in favour of a media release titled “Busy mums want more paid work,” citing the rate of underemployment being twice as high for women (8%) than for men (4%). Sadly it seems that the lace curtain extends all the way into our country’s top statistical body.
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So spit ‘em out! Right now!
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Now to get those stats about male disadvantage into to the popular media! Thanks ABS for the data, lets make best use of it!
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Time for men to get their balls back: http://goo.gl/obiC
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In criminal sentencing, men are on average receiving 5 times the length of time a woman does for the same crime…
90% of workplace deaths are men…
the average age of retirement for women is 48, for men is 57, this despite the fact that men, on average die younger than women by 7 years…
on average, men work up to 25% more time at work, yet there is only an average wage disparity of 17% between the ATMWE and ATFWE…
more men work in l…ower paid jobs than all the social workers australia wide.
men make up less than 10% of teaching staff in the public education system…
more men die in australia from breast cancer than women…
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