Since I was featured on Freshly Pressed recently, I’ve quadrupled my follower/subscriber count. That’s very exciting! However, I haven’t had a chance to check out your profiles – if I get one or two followers a day I usually go look at their blogs, but there have been too many followers all at once for me to read lately! (What a horrible humble brag, yuck.) If you’re an academic and/or feminist blogger who has subscribed and would like me to follow your blog too, just leave a comment below!
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Rachel E. Moss 
Well, I am not an academic and/or feminist blogger, but I dig into government official data to prove that sexism is very serious in the world. I used Canadian data for Canada, where I live, to demonstrate how to make a point. Just let me know if it helps. By the way, I don’t want to be followed as an academic or feminist, because I am not.
A Closer View At Gender Inequality
(http://simplyjet.wordpress.com/2014/02/09/a-closer-view-at-gender-inequality/)
Sorry, in case I mislead you here, I must add that Germany, France and Canada exhibit a very different form of sexism compared to, say, UK, US, Italy and maybe Spain. Japan is also quite different from the Western countries listed above in terms of their manifestation of sexism. Remember that these countries are considered the most civilized and advanced in the world. So, I hope I do have a point.
By the way, all data used in proving sexism in Canada are available at Statistics Canada (http://www.statcan.gc.ca/) and those in US at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (http://www.bls.gov/data/). I do give the URL’s to specific data points to facilitate reference checking, such as women being generally way more educated than men in Canada (http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/educ73a-eng.htm). These government tools are so convenient and easily accessible to the general public. It is this type of transparency I like about the West.
I promise that this is the last comment of the day for this post. My point is, Canadian women are way more educated than Canadian men, similarly in France and Germany, but do they get as much employed and paid? That’s the problem. So, women waste so much time in education and men still get better jobs regardless of lower education. How fair is that? This is not the case in US, UK, Italy and Japan though. This is why I said sexism may manifest itself in different forms. OK, this is it. Sorry about flooding your post with my comments.
Hmm. I’m a feminist novelist who blogs and works in academia. I think this counts?