- Much
of the statistics that we hear about the plight of American women if
false, and some phony claims had been repeated so often they're almost
beyond the reach of critical analysis.
Coming up next on the factual feminist, 5 feminist Myths that will
not die. Myth number one. Women are half the world's population,
working two-thirds of the world's working hours, receiving 10 percent of
the world's income and owning less than one percent of the world's
property. Well this faux fact is
routinely quoted by advocacy group by the World Bank, Oxfam, the United
Nations.
- But
it's a fabrication. More than 15
years ago, two Sussex University
experts on gender and development explained that the slogan was simply
made up by somebody at the UN back in the 80's. It just seemed sorta right
to that to that person. There's no evidence that it was ever accurate and
it's certainly not accurate today.
Even in some of the poorest countries in Africa, women own
more. In Africa, for example, Yale
economist Cheryl Das found that female land ownership rangea from 11
percent in Senegal to 54 percent in Rwanda and Burundi.
- Next
Myth...Between 100,000 and 300,000 girls are sold into slavery each year
in the United States. Now this sensational claim is a favorite of
celebrities, journalist, advocates, politicians both conservative and
liberal, By the way, the source for
the figure is a 2001 report on child sexual exploitation but that 100,000
- 300,000 figure refers to children at risk for exploitation not actual
victims, and as one of the authors made clear in an email exchange that he
had with the Village Voice, the actual number of children abducted and
pressed into sexual slavery is “ a few hundred and still a hundred too
many” but they're not gonna be helped by a thousand-fold inflation of the
number.
- Next
Myth... In the United States 22-35 percent of women who visit emergency
rooms do so because if domestic violence. Now this claim has appeared in
countless factsheets, books, articles. Its in the penguin Atlas on women. They use this emergency room figure to
justify placing the United States on par with Uganda and Haiti for
intimate violence. Well what is the
source? It seems that several feminist scholars misunderstood a 1997 study
by the justice department. The
correct figure is not 22% - 35% but get ready... less than one-half of one
percent , *****
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Published Online: August 5, 1998
Prevalence of Partner Abuse
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/187815
Context.— The majority of prior studies examining intimate partner abuse in the emergency department (ED) setting have been conducted in large, urban tertiary care settings and may not reflect the experiences of women seen at community hospital EDs, which treat the majority of ED patients in the United States.
Objective.— To determine the prevalence of intimate partner abuse among female patients presenting for treatment in community hospital EDs and describe their characteristics.
Design.— An anonymous survey conducted from 1995 through 1997 inquiring about physical, sexual, and emotional abuse.
Setting.— Eleven community EDs in Pennsylvania and California.
Participants.— All women aged 18 years or older who came to the ED during selected shifts.
Main Outcome Measures.— Reported acute trauma from abuse, past-year physical or sexual abuse, and lifetime physical or emotional abuse.
Results.— Surveys were completed by 3455 (74%) of 4641 women seen. The prevalence of reported abuse by an intimate partner was 2.2% (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.7%-2.7%) for acute trauma from abuse,
- Next
Myth one in five college women will be sexually assaulted this incendiary
figure is everywhere in the media today the one in five figure is based on
a survey called the cap a sexual assault study but two prominent
criminologists have noted fatal flaws it had a very low response rate a
non representative sample of respondents and an overly broad definition of
what counts is assault I mean it included
- such
things as attempted forced kissing or intimate encounters while
intoxicated. Now defenders of the one in five figure will apply that the
finding has been replicated by other studies but the study suffer from the
same sort of flaws now the best study that we have on sexual assault on
campus suggest the figures for closer to One in 40 not One in Four.
- 1 in
40 is still bad but apparently not bad enough for the activist. And now
for the mother of all feminist factoids, women earn 77 cents for every
dollar a man earns for doing the same work now no matter how many times
this wage gap claim is decisively refuted by economists including feminist
economist it always comes back the bottom line 23 cents gender pay gap is
simply the difference between the average earnings have all men and women
working full-time it doesn't take into account differences in occupation
positions education job
- tenure
hours worked per week when such relevant factors are considered the wage
gap narrows to the point vanishing now wage gap activists will say no,
women with identical backgrounds in jobs is man they still earn less but
they always fail to take into account critical variables i mean why play
this game all these reckless claims are nearly impossible to correct
because armies of advocates, journalists, political leaders, they depend
on killer stats to promote their cause and I guess there's also an admirable
human tendency to be protective of women
- and
stories of female exploitation are readily believed killer stats
undermined good causes and they send scarce resources in the wrong
direction. My advice to women advocates, take back the truth. And if any
of you have questions about anything I've said or would like to see other
dubious feminist facts investigated, please leave comments below,
- ...
and remember check your fax not your privilege.
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