How the 1% meme obscures global inequality

There is economic inequality between men and women, but gender is not class. And woman does not equal poor.

A little geographic and demographic awareness might squelch the 1% meme

How the 1% meme works, and how it could be stopped. Here is a typical recent application of the 1% meme -the 30-year rumor that women own only 1% of the world’s property. In a blog post on Ms., Jessica Mack describes the problem of women’s landownership in China. Land ownership is a big problem…

International Women’s Day breathes new life into the 1% meme

What does this meme say about generations of feminists and all they've accomplished when it carelessly exaggerates the state of women's oppression?

Follow the bouncing 1% meme…

Will women always only own "1% of the world's wealth"?

What is the 1% meme solution?

The 1% meme lives.

The fathers behind teen births (or, statistical memes and motivated blind trust)

When makes people trust statistical memes? I don’t know of any research on this, but it looks like the recipe includes a combination of scientific-sounding specificity, good graphics, a source that looks credible, and – of course – a number that supports what people already believe (and want their Facebook friends to believe, too). If that’s the…

A one-percent-meme-less International Women’s Day?

Support International Women's Day. (Stop the 1% meme.)

How much wealth for women? More than 1%

OK, here is enough evidence to tie this thing up.

Stop that feminist viral statistic meme

The burden of proof is not on me to show these facts are wrong, but rather to point out that they were never demonstrably true, so we shouldn't use them.

Women and climate change (good point, coupla bad facts)

The EU Parliament takes a stand on women and climate change (+/- 1%).