Gender and GDP

Objective

Most people living in the Western World are very quick to extol the virtues of gender equality. There are however many places where this is not so. This then inevitably leads to conflict as cultures and nations are drawn closer together on our ever shrinking earth. Perhaps not the sort of conflict that leads to sabre rattling, but certainly ideological disagreements that affect policy and have real impacts on large swathes of humanity. So what is to be done? How can say how anyone else should be. There are of course all sorts of moral back and forth’s that could be pursued cyclically ad nauseum, but what if we could show quantitatively what the benefit of gender equality was to a nation and the lives of it’s people? That is the exact sort of question I like to answer here at this blog and it is a question that came up in my daily life a couple of weeks ago. Because most metrics for most countries are recorded, this is the sort of thing that can be answered. Indeed, it has been before, so here I add another take on an argument that really shouldn’t still be happening…