Readers’ views 62 20th anniversaries: Poland, 22 November 2016; Hungary, 7 May 2016 63 Recent speeches by Angel Gurría; List of OECD ambassadors 64 Calendar highlights
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DATABANK 69 Korea’s young students excel, as women outsmart men 70 Main economic indicators 72 Korean-African trade techs up; Crossword
Urban future It will be interesting to see how things evolve in the coming decades; particularly in handling traffic, walkability, and general congestion caused by the massive influx of a concentrated population. Most cities are not designed to accommodate the population growth numbers you’ve noted above…Great article!
inequality, and help us understand which efforts are being effective.
Brad V. Done, commenting on “Building better cities: Why national urban policy frameworks matter”, from OECD Observer No 307 Q3 2016, posted on www.medium.com
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Women graduates No offence, but earning a degree in formal education is not equivalent to measuring intelligence. If it were so, then you could logically say white people are smarter than black people because more white people have university degrees. So let’s not go down that road. There’s plenty to celebrate about women in higher education without turning this into clickbait.
Sam Ursu, commenting on “Women outsmart men”, from OECD Observer No 307 Q3 2016, posted on www.medium.com Climate, inequality and cities, page 55 Germany Netherlands Switzerland Ireland Belgium Denmark Poland Portugal Norway US Austria France Sweden OECD average Czech Republic Spain Latvia Russia Luxembourg Italy Hungary Lithuania Croatia CABA (Argentina)
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Pay gap It seems to me there must be two components to the pay gap: women not reaching the same levels of seniority compared with men with similar education or experience, and women not being paid equally with men at the same level of seniority. Furthermore, it seems there are probably some legitimate, or at least unintentional, reasons for the former cause–such as differences in gender expectations of career ambition–and some malignant reasons–such as discrimination against women during competitive promotions–whereas there are no benign reasons for the latter cause. Understanding the different components of these metrics would help us target the changes necessary to eliminate gender
John Evens, commenting on “Do men’s and women’s choices of field of study explain why women earn less than men?”, from http://oecdeducationtoday. blogspot.fr, posted on www.medium.com _____
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