cyberdad wrote:
In Australia, despite having one the highest standard of living in the western world, 1 in 3 women will experience domestic violence and 1 in 5 will be sexually assaulted.
According to a 2014 study published by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), approximately one third of all women in the EU were said to have suffered physical and/or sexual abuse. At the top end was Denmark (52%), Finland (47%) and Sweden (46%).
Scandanavian countries are supposed to have the best reputation for womens equality?
Please take these statistics in our own backyard in mind before casting judgement on third world countries where cultural backwardness and poverty mean women have a multitude of other problems beyond predatory men.
As bad as some men behave in the west, women have it much worse in the third world. The fact that third world women are standing up for their rights at all - and are actually being listened to - is a testament to western influence.
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-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer