[datameta]

Arguably, all you need to do is look at GDP. Even looking at Germany, the east/west split is evident - and that was 45 years of soviet regime.

Furthermore are you saying that behavior in Thailand is acceptable? What is the point of mentioning it otherwise? Before I found out these allegations I unfortunately watched videos of him in South America as well as India. He walks around like a Belgian in 19th century colonial Congo.

[thriftwy]

GDP is a poor signal because these huge middle class salaries for breadwinners in the US, Japan and S. Korea actually held gender balance back for decades. Wife will be expected to quit her job and dedicate herself to the family when her husband made five figures USD annually.

Countries where both sexes were expected to work, for the same ballpark of four figures salaries, and where child care / child leave were subsidied becase of said lowish salaries got a comparative gender balance advantage out of their mediocre economies.