Denmark's commitment to high standards of gender equality: don't you feel like we're 1000 years behind them?

Question

And this United Nations Specialised (CEDAW) document about Denmark dates all the way back to 1997:

http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/cedaw/cedaw-denmark.htm

And the rest of us are moving so slowly it sometimes feels like we're standing completely still. Its depressing.

Answer 1

The rest of the world fears any documents like these..

Louise C, do you actually believe all that nonsense you wrote about social engineering and totalitarianism? Most of society is socially engineered, if you want to be precise. I think you are alluding to the recent supposed law change in Britain? If you had actually read it (it's available from the government's web site) you'll find that it does not set rules for who can be employed or force any paternity leave.

Don't delude yourself (although I know this will be hard) into thinking that Denmark is any less free than other countries. Not being devoted to building up millions of pointless little businesses importing cheap Chinese goods, and calling this growth, is not totalitarianism, it is good sense.

Answer 2

Not only is the US a 1000 years behind-but we're one of the few hold-outs that refuses to ratify CEDAW out of 100's of countries-after 27 years of our Congress talking about it. Here's the fear vs facts about it-but it hasn't done any good with the loonies we have running our goverment (past and present): http://www.abanet.org/irr/fear_fact.html

Here's the most recent info about CEDAW from the UN:

http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/ced...

Answer 3

We have passed the Family Leave Act, Civil Rights Act (regarding gender discrimination), and sexual harrassment laws. In fact, most of those laws were passed before 2000.  We do not just "encourge" gender equality - we mandate it in employment. If they work real hard, they will ba able to accomplish what we have in about ten years.

Answer 4

If you want to be like Denmark, that's fine, but personally I have no desire to see this kind of social engineering implemented in the UK.  Employers should not be harassed about who they are employing or promoting. You cannot force men to take parental leave if they don't want to.  These things should be up to individuals to decide without impertinent interference from the government.

As far as I am concerned, it's fine by me if 'the rest of us' do not move  towards this kind of totalitarianism.

Answer 5

Just one? LOL.

I see Denmark was named the happiest kingdom of them all in a recent international poll.

Interesting how the places where all this 'feminism' is way uppity just keep on making those top 10 lists, isn't it?

Maybe those feminists are onto something ... d'you think?

This was a big one too ~ 80,000 people polled. Not a bad little sample, I'd say.

Cheers ;-)

Answer 6

It is only a report and not how the society actually IS in Denmark yet, but they have to have credit for even drawing up such a document. Sweden has a similar commitment (though I'mnot sure if they have an official document).

Just wait for the plethora of answers telling you how these countries only now produce browbeaten, cissy men who have been taken over by feminists, and who live under a 'socialistic' nightmare. That's the only criticisms these people can devise.

Answer 7

Many feminists won't be happy until we live in a police state run on the feminist principle that all men are a problem that needs to be jailed, spayed, or eradicated e.g.

The world doesn't need men

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment...

Lets just stick them in jail

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/wo...

Answer 8

If it's such a paradise move there. Nobody is stopping you. US Men who want to leave this Gynocracy are increasingly finding it more difficult to do so. Get behind on Child Support you are denied a Passport, even if you have a career requiring the Travel overseas. A New Law that has gone into effect is intended to keep the money of US Retirees in the US. So they cannot take the money they have accumulated from a Lifetime of Saving and investments and go expatriate. Just like the former USSR. So much for Freedom.

Marriage is dead in Scandinavian countries. Cohabitation is the rule. And Men in those Nations are standing around while Recent Immigrants Rape, Beat and abuse their Women. And rob them, without any resistance. When Moslem populations become the majority, they will take over Eurabia without firing  

a shot. That's not progress that is the Death of European Culture.