More statistics from the UK

[tn207]

My post on the International Women's Day was about the sorry state of women's rights in the developing world. Things are not ideal in the developed west, despite a recent article by the Guardian claiming just that. Here are some of the UK statistics presented in this more recent article:

73% of young women want to go on working after they have had

Comments

[marfatron]

i'm not sure that average age to marry being 33 is something to be proud of. and neither is halving the birth rate (not even talking about breaking the government's alcohol limits!). i'd like to be able to have kids and work, you know. all before 33. right!

as with anything "new" (e.g. medicine, foods, hormones, etc.) we'll have to see 20-30-40 years later how these "achievements" affect women. for one, not having children or having children late (as well as all kinds of std's contracted via multiple sexual partners) will no doubt contribute to increase female cancer rates. and i'm sure they will contribute to a multitude of other health issues, such as depression.

[purple_monkey]

>>40% of men in their 20s still live at home, compared to 24% of women of the same age.

That's interesting, isn't it supposed to be other way around?
Although...many girls get married early and levae their homes.
So this hardly characterizes independence.

[marfatron]

on the other hand the average age to get married for women is 33, so fewer get married in their 20s. so it could still be independence, i guess. although it's hard to combine these two numbers into anything meaningful...