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Changing the gender paradigm: it’s women’s work : Comments

By Jennifer Wilson, published 24/6/2011

No one has yet come up with a satisfactory explanation of why in our culture sexual difference is synonymous with gender inequality.

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Well, I think it comes down to male brute strength and historical change.
A matter of generations even for the most advanced western societies (Eurocentric, blah) for a species only a few million years down from the trees and a mere ten thousand years of that into serious civilisation- building. However the long evolving social and cultural communicative mechanism don't work in a post industrial era; people are still trying to build their lives around conditioning that sees them think themselves nineteen fifties people- pink for girls, blue for boys, marriage, Father Knows Best.
It's only been two generations since the Pill came on tap and people in societies like ours set off on an adventure not conceivable even by HG Wells.
Capitalism certainly has shredded so many of the good old things and replaced these with seemingly little. It's mentality seems ubiquitous down through the ages. We need to get civilised about what we want for future generations as well as ourselves, but I suspect evolution real or artificial, may tend to be the game changer in future, or not at all the way the world has been and continues to be, run.
Posted by paul walter, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 12:51:03 PM
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