CLIFF NOTES FROM 9TAILEDVIXEN’S 2ND WEEK BACK AT WORK:
(a) Put up-Sabbatical Week 2
I have been working steadily and ensuring I end work earlier than 9pm most days. So the post-sabbatical bottleneck is progressively being whittled all the way down to manageable ranges and hopefully I will be all caught up by the top of subsequent week.
(b) Aerial Yoga
My wonky knee and ankle are nonetheless therapeutic so I have not been attending as many courses as I needed to. I’ve saved it to Thursday morning class for the previous couple of weeks as a result of that teacher is fantastic at instructing newcomers and he or she very helpfully centered on flows that accommodate my knee and ankle.
I can do cool inversion (the other way up) poses now like hanging by my legs and doing a silks-assisted handstand earlier than pulling myself up right into a double hip-lock that safely suspends me mid-air.
(c) This Week in Korean Girls’s Information
1. Academic rebalance might get extra South Korean ladies working
The advance of ladies in South Korea has emerged from the nation’s heavy funding in training. Because of this, women now outperform boys on varied instructional metrics together with school enrollment charges, which as of final yr stood at 78% for women and 74% for boys.
This, in flip, has helped enhance feminine labor market participation, which reached a seasonally adjusted stage of 56.4% in February, the best recorded since South Korea started releasing figures in 1999.
But South Korea nonetheless lags badly in gender equality, with its feminine labor market participation price remaining significantly decrease than that of different members of the Organisation for Financial Co-operation and Growth.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Academic-rebalance-could-get-more-South-Korean-women-working
2. The rise and fall of North Korea – the sleeping large of ladies’s soccer
Regardless of dwelling requirements being properly behind most different nations, North Korea has been one of many strongest feminine soccer nations on the planet.
Once they took on the USA in 2007, they have been ranked fifth on the earth and amid a run of three Asian titles within the area of a decade.
Their document at youth stage is even higher. In 2016, they gained the U20 Girls’s World Cup, defeating Spain, the USA and France within the knockout rounds. That very same yr, their under-17 crew additionally lifted their age-grade World Cup.