The decline in women’s rights is measurable. In the 2025–26 Women, Peace and Security Index, Israel ranks 84 of 181 countries – behind Albania, Russia, and Saudi Arabia.
I don’t doubt that Israel is backsliding on women’s rights, but this “Women, Peace and Security Index” has got to be bullshit.
They have a bunch of parameters that try to capture the situation of women, and I’m sure that can be useful to gauge which way the wind is blowing for a single country, but it gets kinda ridiculous when Saudi Arabia gets a much better score than Turkey, China, India, Brazil, Iran, and Mexico.
Just a reminder that women were not allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia until 2018.
63-million women genocided ( when newborn, all the way to husbands burning-to-death their wives, from what I’d read in other stuff, through past years ) proves that India isn’t protecting women’s lives…
There’s another article here on lemmy.world/c/world that was posted recently, about how now women are allowed to drive, in Saudi Arabia, but the regime is exterminating criticism, through executions.
First of all they use the same model for all countries, so it’s not unexpected that it’s not perfect. I’m sure they would be happy to explain this to you themselves if you asked them.
But just to be clear, if an expert explicitly claimed that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is safer for women than Turkey, then they’re drunk and need to go home.
If the experts claimed an helicopter crash is perfectly normal and a better outcome than a normal landing, I don’t need to know to pilot to be able to tell they’re full of bullshit.
I don’t doubt that Israel is backsliding on women’s rights, but this “Women, Peace and Security Index” has got to be bullshit.
They have a bunch of parameters that try to capture the situation of women, and I’m sure that can be useful to gauge which way the wind is blowing for a single country, but it gets kinda ridiculous when Saudi Arabia gets a much better score than Turkey, China, India, Brazil, Iran, and Mexico.
Just a reminder that women were not allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia until 2018.
63-million women genocided ( when newborn, all the way to husbands burning-to-death their wives, from what I’d read in other stuff, through past years ) proves that India isn’t protecting women’s lives…
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/news/2024/4/why_are_millions_of_women_missing_in_india/
There’s another article here on lemmy.world/c/world that was posted recently, about how now women are allowed to drive, in Saudi Arabia, but the regime is exterminating criticism, through executions.
The truth is hidden-in-the-murk, unfortunately…
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Hey everybody, this guy thinks he knows better than The Experts!
First of all they use the same model for all countries, so it’s not unexpected that it’s not perfect. I’m sure they would be happy to explain this to you themselves if you asked them.
But just to be clear, if an expert explicitly claimed that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is safer for women than Turkey, then they’re drunk and need to go home.
If the experts claimed an helicopter crash is perfectly normal and a better outcome than a normal landing, I don’t need to know to pilot to be able to tell they’re full of bullshit.