Coase, a Nobel laureate in economics, lamented in "Changing China": "The diligence of Chinese has amazed and humiliated the world, and even a little fear." ”
So can Chinese's "diligence" be quantified with data? The answer is yes. In addition, if we distinguish by gender, are Chinese men more diligent or women contributing more?
The answer is Chinese women!
After reading big data, you know how difficult it is for Chinese women.
Today is Women's Day, I would like to share this article and wish women all over the world a happy holiday!
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In the early years, the US National Bureau of Statistics released a set of data on the labor participation rate of countries around the world, and China ranked first in the world, the world's largest total labor force, and the world's first labor participation rate. The so-called total labor force is the sum of the working hours of all working people, and the so-called labor force participation rate is the percentage of the total population who participate in the work.
The labor participation rate of all countries in the world, the area of the circle represents the total labor volume, and China ranks first; The horizontal axis represents the labor force participation rate, which China has reached 76%, which is also the first in the world.
Chinese has a 76 percent labor force participation rate, which means that only 24 percent of people have nothing to do at home, including the elderly, children and students. In contrast, the United States has only 65%, Japan has only 58%, only Brazil can barely PK with China, 70%, and India, which clamors every day to surpass China and become the largest country in Asia, has a strangely low labor force participation rate of 55%, and almost half of the people choose to stay at home and not work.
An old foreigner studying in China complained about Chinese's "diligence" on Zhihu: "With the terrible labor participation rate of 76%, don't you need Chinese rest?" "Looking at our surroundings, it seems that there are not many Chinese who really rest completely, but all the Chinese who can move their hands and feet and have a light head are very disdainful of sitting and eating.
Some time ago, my mother went out to work, and even though she was retired, she still went out to work. I asked her: "You are so old, what are you tossing about, can't you retire with peace of mind?" My mother: "What's wrong at such an age, as long as I can move, I am not idle." Later, my father told me, "People have to work, otherwise they will be useless." ”
In "Ode to Joy" 2, the five girls, Guan Guan and Qu Xiaoxiao are the most qualified to gnaw the old, but they all came out to work hard. One of the most popular sayings among young professionals is: "People who are better than you work harder than you." What qualifications do you have not to work hard. ”
Coase, a Nobel laureate in economics, lamented in "Changing China": "The diligence of Chinese has amazed and humiliated the world, and even a little fear." ”
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The result of such diligence is that Chinese completely crushes the whole world in terms of labor resources, especially India, which has a population similar to China.
China ranks first in terms of labor resources in the world
In fact, China's population is similar to India's, but China's labor force is 1.7 times that of India. Chinese is 4.2 times that of the United States, but the labor force is 5 times that of the United States. You see, China's labor resources are more than Chinese cattle in the world.
Indians always arrogantly say that we also have a large population, why is the economy completely beaten by China? If you look at the data, you can understand that the demographic advantage has not been translated into a labor advantage, and a large population is a burden. But Chinese people are different, many families are a family of old and young people in battle, all work, earn money, and run to a well-off. Such a bullish citizen, how can you say catch up and overtake.
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With a labor force participation rate of 76%, Chinese is indeed very diligent, so is it that Chinese men are diligent or Chinese women are diligent?
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Let's look at another set of data.
This table shows the labor force participation rates of men and women around the world, with dark squares representing men and light circles representing women. China's male labor force participation rate has led the way, reaching 90%, on a par with Brazil, the Philippines, India and other countries; China's women's labor force participation rate is nearly 70%, ranking first in the world.
See. First of all, Chinese men, Chinese men are indeed very diligent, very strong sense of raising a family, labor participation rate is as high as 90%, far ahead of other countries, only Brazil, the Philippines, India and other poor countries men can compare!
Looking at Chinese women, it's really amazing, nearly 70% labor force participation rate, it's terrifying. You have to know that the labor force participation rate of French men is only 62%, which means that Chinese women are more diligent than French men and have a stronger sense of breadwinners.
In contrast, although Indian men are very hardworking, very family-oriented, and the labor participation rate reaches 90%, but Indian women do not, Indian women's labor participation rate is only 28%, who is the person who makes China dump India to dominate Asia? It's a Chinese woman!
When Chinese men and Brazilian men are equal in strength, who is the one who will let China dump Brazil's dominance in the developing world? It's a Chinese woman! If Chinese men have pulled China to the ranks of the world's best, then it is Chinese women who make China excellent and develop at a super speed. Chinese women are really more than a little stronger.
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From the perspective of age, it is not Chinese men who really support most of China's economy, but those Chinese women between the ages of 25 and 55 who have to go out to work as wives, mothers, and daughters-in-law and fight with the world.
China's labor force participation rate of all ages in the world has reached a staggering 90%, ranking first in the world
The labor force from 25 to 55 years old is undoubtedly the best quality labor force, young, energetic, ambitious, and ideological, and in this age group, the labor participation rate of Chinese is as high as 90%, and it is the first in the world.
More importantly, women at this stage are not only professionals, not only to earn money to support their families, not only to fight with colleagues, bosses, subordinates, customers and other people in society, but also to raise children and educate children. In "No War in Beiping", Liang Jinglun, a professor of economics at Yenching University, sighed: "Chinese women are bitter! ”
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Compared with Chinese men, Chinese women are indeed not very hard, but compared with women in other countries, Chinese women are simply women, Australia and New Zealand women's labor participation rate is only 60%, French women's labor participation rate is only 50%, American women's labor participation rate is only 58%, they enjoy the high welfare of developed countries, have children, milk powder money government pays, tuition and living expenses government pay, especially Australia and Canada, even children's nanny fees, extracurricular tutoring fees are also paid by the government, Families basically do not need to bear the additional cost of education.
Moreover, Western countries have a strong sense of individuality, mother-in-law basically does not interfere in the affairs of her son's family, and there will be no phenomenon of three generations living together, young women have absolute control at home and are very free.
In this comparison, you should know how difficult it is for Chinese women, and you should know why I said that Chinese women are definitely more than half of the sky.
Strong Chinese women, while shouldering the heavy responsibility of having children, leave early and return late, crawl and roll, in factories, schools, enterprises, even construction sites, wherever men appear, they take on the responsibilities of no less than men, they try their best to maintain a family's life as good as possible, they spend most of the money they have on children and families, and together with Chinese men, they have achieved the world-famous rise of China.
Shaunci said it well: "Chinese women look around, they are the freest, most self-reliant, most independent, the most excellent, the most struggling women, the hardest work, they should have more respect and applause than women in any country." ”
In 2017, Hurun Rich List released a list of self-made women in various countries around the world, 88 female rich people in 12 countries were on the list, Chinese women accounted for 56 seats, ranking first, accounting for 64%, the top ten self-made women, six are Chinese women, and the top three are Chinese women.
I saw a working woman on Zhihu, graduated ten years ago, has climbed to the middle and senior management of the company, has options, and has a very good income, or resigned and started her own business. "I don't want to just settle down, I want to achieve more, I should have greater achievements, that's my ambition." Financial writer Wu Xiaobo once told a story about a female white-collar worker who worked in Shanghai and earned 3W a month, but she was still anxious and still insecure. "I want better, I want better for my family."
According to a study by the Centre for Work Life Policy in New York, Chinese women are among the most ambitious women in the world. 76% of Chinese women want to hold the top job, compared to 52% in the United States. Strong Chinese women, so that they are in the top rich class, in the ordinary middle class, and even in the ordinary class, so that China is comprehensively surpassing the world average.
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The Global Times once conducted a global survey on why Chinese women are so tough, and came to the following conclusions:
First, Chinese women have a very strong desire for independence
"Go to your man to earn money, and the woman to stay home." "your full-time woman." "I want to have my own children and husband, but also my own poetry and distant places."
Chinese women are becoming more and more independent, and they all understand that economic independence is the basis of all independence, and the vast majority of women in China have their own jobs and incomes, and even many women are very ambitious and surpass men in many fields.
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Second, high emotional intelligence
"Chinese women seem to be naturally adept at handling complex relationships."
Working women, mothers, wives, daughters-in-law, to deal with all kinds of society, to learn to get along with their sons and husbands, and most importantly, to learn to get along with their mothers-in-law, which is the most testing of people's emotional intelligence. "In a family-based community like China, Chinese women are actually the most critical link between two generations, and they must train such high emotional intelligence to cope with the world."
Third, the level of education is good
Compared with women in India and Brazil, Chinese women are generally very educated, especially today, basically Chinese women have received systematic education, many women enter university classrooms for higher education, of course, this is not the most important, although Chinese women are better educated than them, but Chinese women are more diligent than them.
Therefore, men, be kind to your wife, be kind to your daughter, be kind to your mother, they are far better than women in any other country, they must be independent, diligent, and have a fighting spirit!