That’s on Mackinaw Island. Remember staying the night on the island for lilac festival. Looks and smells amazing

This should be obvious but not for the reason implied

Because then they’d turn blue.

Thank you. I will look up trying to find specific areas and businesses that supported the legislature. I know not all people even in blue areas support these kinds of ideals but it is worth the effort to me.

Possibly because the cost of living is generally so low, and theres so many blue collar jobs to be had.

Thank you. I was also about to state the obvious. 😂

"They also say it's possible that the associations they observed between gender equality and life expectancy could be explained by other factors, like socioeconomic development and sociocultural norms."

Japan would seem to be a major outlier in this area, no?

Because then you have to introduce government programmes.

Iran (government/extremists*) murdering girls to avoid equality, sounds like this tracks.

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That's no way to talk about somebody's Grandma

US is poor then

correlation isnt equal to causation, shit headline

Bullshit article.

On the same note, Nicolas Cage films cause people to drown in pools, the US spending on science make people kill themselves and the more margarine Minnesotans eat, the more divorces they have.

Gender equality is important but it will not make people live longer as this title suggests.

Uplifting? That’s terrible news!

why dont red states aim for higher education and higher incomes for their residents?

Blake’s is good. I also really, really like Tandem.

Japan has the highest life expectancy and according to the World Economic Forum (🥴) is ranked 120th out of 195 countries for “gender equality” lol

Ironically, gender inequality was one of the biggest problems in Ukraine before the invasion.

When hopefully Ukraine has it's freedom back and the invader outside the door it's very important that these things change in the country if they succesfully want to be part of the modern civilized European society.

Many countries victim of a war don't make these cultural switches to the 21st century and fall back 100 years. Corruption rises, conservative outdated ideas and favouritism shine and the often 'new' democracy dies a quick death. Countless of examples in Asia (Pakistan, India, Iran etc), Africa ( Syria, Libya etc), South America (Suriname, Brazil etc).

Countries like Czechia, Estonia, Poland etc have made these switches after the fall of the ussr/iron curtain and have become modern countries. Latvia, Kazachstan etc did not. Same with countries after the Yuguslav war. Kroatia became a very modern free 21st century country. Serbia did not.

If the majority of the Ukrainian population believes that issues like gender inequality (or corruption, government control or economic inequality) are minor issues, then Ukraine could fall back to a ussr like country way worse than the already bad situation prior to the war.

Don't get me wrong. Gender inequality is on a complete different level than a war and all of the terror that comes with it. But nothing is on the same level as a war. Gender inequality is not a minor issue. If you believe it is, then you should go live in Iran or Pakistan.

The Meijer sculpture garden is really cool as well!

Japan is the necessary selection bias. /s

Please do not confuse correlation vs causation.

I, for one, think that man are not mentally there yet to raise the kids as their main job, but I also think women are in a kind of honeymoon phase with gender equality where a lot of woman rule out being the „kid raiser“ simply because they can. We kind of life in a moment where it’s looked down upon to be the one staying at home (for both men and women)

Obviously developed contruies have higher life expectancy than undeveloped ones. This is not a cause and consequence factor. Biased headline from biasednews source

Floridian here. Can confirm. I wish I lived in Michigan instead