I wonder how many of the "experts" polled on this study were actually women.
It stinks to me like this thread, a bunch of men arguing over if it's really this "dangerous" to be a woman in the US. Like a bunch of white people arguing over how difficult it is to be black, there is no way a man can know what it's like to be a woman or vice versa.
There is no way in my mind that most well educated, well traveled women would buy into this. I am not going to look up the 193 countries in the UN and cross off the obvious countries that aren't part of it that would be so much higher on this list, and cross reference it against countries I've either been to or consider myself well enough educated on - so perhaps there is "some" validity to this but dangerous is a strong word.
Perhaps the point could have been better conveyed if it said something along the lines of "hardship" in being a woman in the modern age. As a liberal woman, I feel like I am the target audience for this study and yet I find it difficult to take seriously.
When they break it down like this:
"most dangerous for women and which country was worst in terms of health care, economic resources, cultural or traditional practices, sexual violence and harassment, non-sexual violence and human trafficking,"
It makes more sense and holds more water as a few of these points are much more valid then others.
1) Health care - Health care sucks for all Americans, this is just as much an issue for men as women. Sure we have the other health risks tied to procreation, but that's true the world over. I guess it's true but again, true for men and woman alike, and affects poor people the most. I don't see any data that shows there are more poor women then men, in fact, the opposite is true if you just look at homeless data.
2) Economic resources - I have a hard time buying this, I know the "we earn 70% of what men do" is thrown around a lot and it has some validity in some fields and much less validity in most fields. There are obvious jobs that woman get paid less in, but there are also jobs we earn a hell of a lot more in. Maybe I've just been lucky, but I haven't seen it.
3) Cultural or traditional practices - I am not sure what is trying to be conveyed here - maybe there is more validity to this then I first thought but I would need a thorough understanding of what they mean exactly.
4) Sexual violence and harassment - just the fact that they lumped these two together shows a bias. Almost all women have endured some kind of sexual harassment but actual violence is another matter altogether. Maybe people's definition of violence is different but to me its almost always spousal abuse and that deserves it's own category.
5) Non-Sexual violence - again I think spousal or domestic abuse could have been highlighted as its own category. I would need to see numbers I guess. This is probably more of an issue in states of the US I refuse to visit, the bible belt and other red states.
6) Human trafficking - I don't really know anything about this so I can't say.
Maybe I just live in a bubble, a liberal state without many of these issues so front and center. But I fail to see how this isn't a biased study that supplies no foundation other than opinion. No data to speak of at all. What kind of reporting is that? AS Trump would say "Terrible, low energy"