The World’s Top Business Cities Are Still Failing Working Women announces/pronounces/bellows “Bloomberg Equality + CityLab”, apparently a “thing”, though I certainly wasn’t aware of it until now.
For the millions of working women in the world’s leading cities for doing business, daily life is often shaped by what they cannot do and how they’re excluded.
A Bloomberg Businessweek analysis of how 15 global cities rank for career women shows each failing in several ways. Toronto came in first, scoring 3.66 out of a possible 5, and São Paulo last, with a 2.68. The performance from best to worst reveals that structural and social gender inequalities remain rife everywhere.
The abduction of Sarah Everard from a London street in March by a police officer, who raped and murdered the 33-year-old marketing executive, spurred a furious uproar, encapsulated by one refrain on social media: “She was just walking home.”
There is good reason to believe that the policeman accused of raping and murdering Sarah Everard should not have been on the force, but the idea that this one incident is somehow “typical” of how, well, the world’s top business cities are still failing working women is absurd. Outrageous incidents are, inherently, unusual, and not “typical”. This is not the sort of thing that is happening all the time in London. Rather, it almost never happens. According to these data, 208 women were victims of homicides in the United Kingdom in 2020, out of 34 million women. According to these figures, 1460 people in the UK died in automobile accidents in 2020, almost 8 times as many. And, presumably, about half of the victims—around 700—were women. Where is the outrage over that?
Afterwords
The actual web address for this story is “best-business-cities-women-ranking”, with London coming in fifth. I guess someone in rewrite thought this was waaay too positive.
