FACTOID #
87:
22% of
American
women aged 20
gave birth while in their teens
. In
Switzerland
and
Japan
, only 2% did so.
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Guatamalan
women
work
11.5 hours a day, while
South African
men
work
only 4.5.
Kenyan
women
work
35% longer than their menfolk.
Ethiopians
are by far the most agricultural people on earth (both
men
and
women
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Looking for
Czech
and
Slovak
men? Half are in
factories
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Women are flooding into the
workforce
in many Muslim countries.
American
women have the most
powerful jobs
.
Southern European women hugely
outnumber their menfolk
amongst the unemployed.
Danish
workers
strike
150 times more than their
German
neighbours.
More than a third of the time,
Icelanders
don't show up for work
. Perhaps that's why they're the
world's happiest nation
.
In
Switzerland
, the average person has to work for 102 minutes to
buy a kilogram of beef
- one of the longest times in the developed world. On the other hand, they only have
work 14 hours to buy a refrigerator
for it.
If you are looking for work, just go to the
Falkland Islands
! They have
full employment and a labor shortage
.
61.5% of
Swedes
work more than
40 hours per week
, but just across the border in
Norway
only 15.8% of people work this long.
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