25 of 33 societies appear to have no possibility for female leaders. [76%]
19 of 33 societies appear to have limited or no female voice in intraband affairs. [58%]
Out of curiosity, I wanted to check how many current societies (countries) have female leaders. This wikipedia page lists 26, and there are ~195 countries total, which gives us 13%.
To weigh by population and rule out ceremonial positions, I compiled some data in this Google Sheet, which gets us that 5.44% of the world population has a female leader.
To be clear, I don’t consider this a particularly strong counterpoint. You do go on to mention that even the societies with female leaders had serious gender inequality. Also, many of the countries I’ve listed have had female leaders in the past, or have laws allowing female leaders, so it’s not as if they have “no possibility” as may have been the case in the past.
But if I were writing the article “post-agricultural gender relations seem bad”, I might say something like “169 out of 195 societies have no female leaders” and “19 out of 20 people don’t have a female leader”, and it would sound quite bad for the modern world.
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Out of curiosity, I wanted to check how many current societies (countries) have female leaders. This wikipedia page lists 26, and there are ~195 countries total, which gives us 13%.
To weigh by population and rule out ceremonial positions, I compiled some data in this Google Sheet, which gets us that 5.44% of the world population has a female leader.
To be clear, I don’t consider this a particularly strong counterpoint. You do go on to mention that even the societies with female leaders had serious gender inequality. Also, many of the countries I’ve listed have had female leaders in the past, or have laws allowing female leaders, so it’s not as if they have “no possibility” as may have been the case in the past.
But if I were writing the article “post-agricultural gender relations seem bad”, I might say something like “169 out of 195 societies have no female leaders” and “19 out of 20 people don’t have a female leader”, and it would sound quite bad for the modern world.