{"id":34117,"date":"2011-03-05T15:10:35","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T20:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=34117"},"modified":"2013-11-14T04:33:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T09:33:05","slug":"international-comparisons-of-equality-and-prosperity-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/03\/05\/international-comparisons-of-equality-and-prosperity-2\/","title":{"rendered":"International Comparisons of Equality and Prosperity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/02\/19\/opinion\/19blow.html?_r=1&amp;scp=3&amp;sq=american%20shame&amp;st=cse\" target=\"_blank\">infographic accompanying an article at the <em>New York Times<\/em><\/a> reveals how &#8220;advanced economies&#8221; compare on various measures of equality, well-being, educational attainment, and more. \u00a0To illustrate this, for each measure countries that rank well are coded tan, countries that rank poorly and very poorly are coded orange and red respectively, and countries that are in the middle are grey. \u00a0The countries are then ranked from best to worst overall, with Australia coming in #1 and the United States coming in last. \u00a0You might be surprised how some of these countries measure up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/03\/10.gif\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34379\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/03\/10.gif\" width=\"560\" height=\"804\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/03\/10.gif 700w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/03\/10-348x500.gif 348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Dmitriy T.M. for the link.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An infographic accompanying an article at the New York Times reveals how &#8220;advanced economies&#8221; compare on various measures of equality, well-being, educational attainment, and more. \u00a0To illustrate this, for each measure countries that rank well are coded tan, countries that rank poorly and very poorly are coded orange and red respectively, and countries that are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,2056,34,2124,252,260,1765,1766,1767,1811,1770,1772,8098,1815,2055,2026,1776,1777,4128,1783,1817,1818,1819,1821,2129,8097,1790,1791,1795,1800,8088,1788,1802,1804,1805,1789,3920,85,234,76],"class_list":["post-34117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-crimelaw","tag-education","tag-foodagriculture","tag-healthmedicine","tag-international-comparisons","tag-nation-australia","tag-nation-austria","tag-nation-belgium","tag-nation-britainthe-u-k","tag-nation-canada","tag-nation-china","tag-nation-cyprus","tag-nation-czech-republic","tag-nation-denmark","tag-nation-finland","tag-nation-france","tag-nation-germany","tag-nation-greece","tag-nation-iceland","tag-nation-ireland","tag-nation-israel","tag-nation-italy","tag-nation-japan","tag-nation-luxembourg","tag-nation-malta","tag-nation-new-zealand","tag-nation-norway","tag-nation-portugal","tag-nation-singapore","tag-nation-slovenia","tag-nation-south-korea","tag-nation-spain","tag-nation-sweden","tag-nation-switzerland","tag-nation-the-netherlands","tag-nation-united-states","tag-politics","tag-democracy","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34117"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59049,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34117\/revisions\/59049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}