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