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> When women are empowered and have agency, they delay having children and have less children. What does this tell us? It tells me that unless we find a soluti
by alexey-salmin 2y ago
> When women are empowered and have agency, they delay having children and have less children. What does this tell us?
It tells me that unless we find a solution, women of the future won't be empowered.
- toomuchtodo 2y agoDefinitely an argument to ensure, through systems, future women have both financial and physical security, regardless of what the sociopolitical macro looks like. Would I say it is a call to arm women? Maybe? Depends on what the landscape looks like. Hard to predict the future.
- alexey-salmin 2y agoSystems are built of people. If these people gradually cease to exist so will the system.
- toomuchtodo 2y agoSome systems, not all. Asymmetric power and force is available and material in such matters. If the argument is "women empowerment is in danger due to not enough children being born who will champion women empowerment," the problem statement is "how do you robustly equip women to empower and defend themselves as well as future women as structural demographics lock in a population decline?" Doesn't necessarily mean you need more people, it means you need more leverage and force projection, systemized, depending on what you're defending against. I agree we need to be mindful about how and what to build (in a world of less humans) to maintain high levels of women empowerment and self defense into the future.
- alexey-salmin 2y agoI don't see this happening. Love of life is stronger than other incentives, we've been evolving for this target for millions of years. If the current system doesn't produce new generations of humans then people will eventually convert to other systems that do. And when that happens no one will care whether these other systems empower women or not, not even women themselves. Empowerment is inconsequential compared to life.