A broad based survey indicates that 1\/3 of women in the EU are affected by violence.\u00a0\u00a0 That should surprise you, but if you’re female, maybe it doesn’t.<\/p>\n
Clearly unfair prejudices still dominate modern, rich cultures.\u00a0 For example, it is saddening to still see and hear behaviour which puts down women.\u00a0 Clearly there are economic differences as female professionals are still paid significantly less than males and are pigeon holed in to women’s work.\u00a0 This is galling in a world of universal education and the plainly observable fact that females are more competent than males in a range of important skills, such as multi-tasking, dealing with stress and cooperating.<\/p>\n
Prejudice is costly enough, but violence is shameful.\u00a0 It might go both ways, a bit.\u00a0 And there might be times when anger is understandable, even thought not justified.\u00a0 But the evidence that gender bias, prejudice and violence is so pervasive is a warning that cultural maturity is far from being achieved, despite technological advances.<\/p>\n
Investment in education and cultural enlightenment would help more than subsidising polluting industries like agriculture and fossil fuel consumption.<\/p>\n
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