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5/28: The Daily Report with John Dickerson
John Dickerson reports on the fallout from Israeli airstrikes on Rafah, closing arguments in former President Trump's "hush money" trial, and what could be behind increased reports of airline...
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Empirically, it appears that the more equal men and women are in a society, the more prosperous that society is. Now, it is a purely correlatory connection, and while there are certain causal arguments to be made here, it is not clear to me that equality between men and women causes prosperity, especially since "prosperity" itself is somewhat subjective. Nonetheless, this connection does make the claim that patriarchal societies are somehow better for the individual than egalitarian or matriarchal societies under questions. Societies with the most extreme gender inequality, such as the ones found in Saudi Arabia, Yemen or Iran, do not seem particularly well-off, while societies with the least amount of gender inequality, such as those found in most Western countries, are leading the world in virtually all reasonable metrics.
Take any field of human activity, say, engineering. In an extremely patriarchal society women might be prohibited from taking any engineering jobs - compared to an extremely egalitarian society, that would reduce the amount of available workforce by half, making high quality engineers more scarce, with obvious negative consequences. One might argue that this issue could be offset by some benefits that such a society would provide, such as women, perhaps, spending more time at home and keeping the family unit more stable - but that is a questionable element of prosperity. An engineer can build a bridge and make the world measurably a better place, while a housewife who cooks food at home instead of, say, working as an engineer and using part of her salary to pay someone to cook for her family, does not seem to make anyone's life better, while missing on the opportunities to make everyone's life better.
I would be curious to hear your argument in favor of a society with 1,000,000 housewives and 1,000,000 male engineers versus, say, a society with 900,000 female engineers, 100,000 housewives, 900,000 male engineers, and 100,000 "househusbands".
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Pointless how? Why is wanting equal treatment 'retarded'?
and its exponential increase is due to the benefits it provides to the politicians and rich people!!
Right, so I'm guessing you don't realise this is a debate site , making a load of ignorant assertions is not debating its venting you don't seem to know the difference , why's that?
I'm guessing you're that certain type of American who seem to be in abundance , you know the loud other uneducated oaf that beats anyone who disagrees with him up .......why are there so many like you?
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