Genderizing public sector employment

Why is the graph comparing the United States to tiny little countries like Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia? It is misleading. The United States should be compared to like-countries, similar in size and economics and or culture. A good comparison would be between Russia, Canada, European Union, and China.

Tracee says: "The United States should be compared to like-countries, similar in size and economics and or culture."

Gender issues are not a question of size, and only partly of economics. Culture (especially gender culture) seems more important - at least many comparative studies hint that way. But I tell you that Baltic culture is probably way closer to the American Way of Life than Russian and Chinese culture. To talk about European Union culture is very missleading as gender cultrues between Sweden and i.e. Greece, Spain or France vary profoundly....

The graph shown is however missleading, as it suggests that the higher the ration of women to men, the closer we get to gender equality. However gender equality is achived if the ratio is equal to 1 for every level of income and for every job position!

This graph does not display the gender ratio for all employment, just for public employment. And, I don't think it implies anything about gender equality. If anything, it shows that inequality persists since in other countries, the gender ratio is quite the opposite: http://swivel.com/graphs/sh...