The academic Alison Wolf has done some fascinating research showing that countries with very good prospects for professional women also have extremely high - 90%-plus - proportions of women doing the very low-paid care work.
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACPP) said America was "in the throes of a national crisis" as the Urban League declared a "state of emergency of tremendous proportions".
On the following Sunday, 7 September – while Cameron was visiting the Queen at Balmoral – the referendum finally became a story of global proportions when a YouGov/Sunday Times poll put the yes side in the lead for the first time – by 51% to 49%.
But obviously, with Berlin's raising popularity, and the continuing arrival of (mostly young) people from all over the world to the city, proportions have shifted, certain quarters have become more expensive, and others are inundated with tourists, like Mitte.
Welby described Ebola as a "plague of extraordinary proportions" with reporters "as much at risk as anyone in a war zone".
Their projected tally of 10 seats should be a disaster of epic proportions – and yet, on the exit polls, it would almost be enough to see them renew their coalition vows with the Conservatives.
The impetus for conflict minerals legislation stems from resource-fuelled conflicts in eastern parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) between 1994 and 2003, which reached near-genocidal proportions, claiming as many as 5 million lives.
A grass-roots movement of remarkable proportions spread the Yes vote across the country.
Doing this would, however, constitute a misjudgment of historical proportions – one that could, in an appalling two-for-one, lose Labour the general election and wipe out the party in Scotland.
Losing his seat after 32 years was painful for him, but it was always unlikely that, popular as he was locally, he could insulate himself from a national trend of seismic proportions.
