Rollo Tomassi said:
"With few exceptions, the greater the power of women, the greater the country’s economic success."
"Aid agencies have started to recognize this relationship"
I have no idea what is true, but these assumptions are irritating. Maybe the countries with the most power given to women are the ones with the luxury to do so because of the economic success.
We were a power before women's lib ever came around, for example. And considering that in the past 20-30 years is when women have really been entering the workforce, they entered it well after we were a huge superpower beast of a country, built on the backs of the men who built the Hoover dam, fought wars, built the interstate system and railroads, created the space program (responsible for a huge number of technologies we use today), invented all the awesome electronics we enjoy, etc. THEN when everything was in place and we were an economic monster, women really started to enter the workforce in larger numbers, riding the coattails of male creation.
One thing of note that i find interesting, is that women become powerful when the power is given to them. They always say they're "empowered." What's that mean? "to give power or authority to" Power that is GIVEN!
Surprise surprise that they become powerful when the laws, rules, and schools are changed to their advantage at the same time as they disadvantage men. If one team's 3 point line is moved back 5 feet while the other's is moved up 5 feet GUESS WHO WINS.
More to the point, what if the economics of the new era are better suited to women?
Once you open your eyes to this possibility, the evidence is all around you. It can be found, most immediately, in the wreckage of the Great Recession, in which three-quarters of the 8 million jobs lost were lost by men. The worst-hit industries were overwhelmingly male and deeply identified with macho: construction, manufacturing, high finance. Some of these jobs will come back, but the overall pattern of dislocation is neither temporary nor random. The recession merely revealed—and accelerated—a profound economic shift that has been going on for at least 30 years, and in some respects even longer.
Doesn't it stand to reason that if men can't get physical jobs anymore that they'll start getting schooling and training to get the jobs that women are currently in? When it's no job or a job they might not prefer, men are going to pick the job they can actually get. People go where the money is. The advantage women have is that bullsh1t "minority" stuff is still in place that keep white men out regardless of any better ability such as medical school.
Then where do women stand? They'll have to compete with men for the same jobs. Nothing says women are better suited. It's that it's just now becoming a new era where physical jobs aren't as important as they once were, and men haven't made the transition yet. Many are caught ill-prepared. I mean, if the country collapses and physical jobs become the important ones again, women will be just as caught with their pants around their ankles as many men are now. The good thing is that women aren't going to get much stronger, but men can learn to do office work and other higher learning jobs.
The moral of this is it seems like we give women a 3rd arm, and we tie one arm of each man behind his back, and then somehow through all this when women aren't filing paper work or entering customer service information with it, they use it to pat women on the back for their "great" accomplishments of mostly paper pushing.
I work at a large center of engineering, and it's still all men here while the women still just push paper.
It seems to me this is still the hierarchy... simplified, but:
1. Smart, educated guys getting sh1t done... a few women
2. Mostly "educated" women with mostly pointless degrees (psychology, communications, art etc) doing mindless office work (which does include management often, sadly)
3. Blue collar men
Last year, Iceland elected Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir, the world’s first openly lesbian head of state, who campaigned explicitly against the male elite she claimed had destroyed the nation’s banking system, and who vowed to end the “age of testosterone.”
That's a great accomplishment? Blame the problems on men and get a rabble of women behind you to agree because SOMEONE HAS TO BE BLAMED!!! "Vote for me! I can't be as bad!" Isn't that how Hitler got into power but replace men with "jews?" Hell, the last few years that's how democrats took over. "Vote for me, I'm not a republican!" How many people regret that decision now? (note: this isn't political because i belong to neither party)