women these days get about twice as many years' education as forty-odd years ago
Loudmouth2,
There's a lot of educating still to be done on whole cultures world-wide not just a handful of Western-privileged who had early access to such enlightenment ! This takes time which we're critically short of at this stage of affairs. Just think of the countless indoctrinated men who, both educated & uneducated & heavily blinded by backward cultures, have power over their women ! I'm talking about 2020 here not two hundred years ago.

Indy, sorry, but what's your point?

what's your point?
Loudmouth2,
The point is that millions more women need to get on board to give the Planet a chance to recover ! Read 'Letter to the women of the world' by Hans Hass.

Indy, I'm not quite following.
If you are suggesting men should somehow not have more power than women, you would be challenging nature.
So as I can't see any discernible point, I must have missed the lead up to this comment or point you are trying to make.
Why are women supposed to get on board with what?

The 93 year old can say anything he wants to; he will be long dead before his silliness is proved wrong. The old goat will never suffer the embarassment he deserves.

Individual,

A pension system does wonders for the reduction in the birth-rate - parents know they won't have to have children, or at least so many, to support them when they are too old to work.

Improvements in health systems does something similar - it cuts down the number of children people think they may need to survive beyond working age.

More education for women means that they have more skills, more employment opportunities, more choices, and don't have to get married off young - they can postpone marriage, having children - and have fewer children as well.

From those charts and graphs, you can see how much things have changed for women (the crucial factor in population growth, after all) since, say, 1950, and how much they can reasonably be expected to change in the next fifty years.

And you may notice that none of these change-factors need any sort of compulsion or penalising of anybody. Take note.

Joe