International Women’s Day: gender statistics Prompted by International Women’s Day I have been looking back at my studies of gender statistics: .(1) Malala Yousafzay, Maryam Mirzakhani and Judit Polgar*; .(2) popular discussion of gender lacks conceptual sophistication and displays gender exceptionalism; .(3) gender and educational performance: there is an interesting comparison between pre-specialisation school performance and post-specialisation school performance (GCSE v A level in the UK); .(4) gender and educational performance: there is an interesting comparison between countries, continents and cultures worldwide in terms of literacy; .(5) gender and prison propensity: why are men much more likely to go to prison? .(6) ethnicity and sex grooming. In general an important distinction is between differences within groups and differences between groups … … there are also effects due to the tails of distributions. Full text: (1)-(4): Chapter 12 in the 2014 Yearbook: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxnb3Jkb25idXJ0bWF0aHNvY3NjaXxneDozNTNmN2M3YmZiMzc4N2Ji (5)-(6): Chapter 3 in the 2017 Yearbook: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxnb3Jkb25idXJ0bWF0aHNvY3NjaXxneDo1ZGNjNWRjZGE1NzU4MGFh in Burt, Gordon. Values, World Society and Modelling Yearbook, 2014. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2016.; Burt, Gordon. Values, World Society and Modelling Yearbook, 2017. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2018.. Also: UNESCO literacy strategy, 2020-2025. https://en.unesco.org/themes/literacy/strategy |