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It would seem not until male predation goes the way of the dinosaur. Proving or disapproving of this concept lies within civic or common laws.  When an organism no longer serves the survival of the collective it dies out.

WHETHER YOU BELIEVE IT OR NOT WE’RE AN ANIMAL SPECIES STILL EVOLVING – SHEDDING WHAT NO LONGER SERVES TO SUCCESSFULLY THRIVE.

Gender Equality is necessary for the Welfare of the State.

In 415 AD, a Roman Egyptian and Christian, “Peter the Reader,” was a radical who led a mob that accosted the female educational leader Hypatia. Returning home from a lecture, she was strapped to her carriage, stripped of clothing, and then dragged naked to the Christianised Caesareum in Alexandria. In the presence of the horde of Christian onlookers, they skinned her alive with tiles and seashells. After being torn to pieces, Hypatia’s body was set ablaze. Thousands of years have passed in the wake of that tragedy, yet those born females still struggle under the same omen of global gender disparity.

Three generations of the world’s greatest female warriors met at the Lincoln Center to celebrate strong hearts and the power of brilliant minds.

In New York City on March 8, 2012, Newsweek and The Daily Beast’s editor-in-chief Tina Brown hosted the third annual Women in The World Summit. It was an event to celebrate women. The gathering shed light on the organizations that bravely step onto the global battle arena for the rights of all women.

It was a momentous occasion because an ongoing war to repair the harsh realities of global gender inequities still exists. The outcries of the youngest generation of women were heard in a single voice. The fantastic 16-year-old songstress Suma Tharu held her audience captive. Escaping servitude in her home of Nepal, her a-cappella voice rang strong and clear enfolding emotions. The lilting melody and lyrics cut through the glare of glamour and media to draw attention to the appalling truth of urgency for many millions of women.

In stark relief, the summit illustrated the wins and losses in the war to achieve global gender parity. 

Nevertheless, these enormities of statements are only snapshots of a small place in time in history for many women. Creating parity among the genders is not only the “human right” thing to do – it is the smart economic thing to do. Building gender equality is fundamental to developing a solid core for successful economic sovereignty. It is smart economics. This meme of creating an equal footing in societies will become intuitive to how a nation should function in achieving success. Only in apathy will that path to gender equity not find successful completion.

The World Bank empirically argued the wasteful financial cost of gender discrimination to governments.

Western cultures live a tale of two cities. In continuing to support poorly enacted women’s healthcare and educational regulatory policies, they merely feed a singular narrative voiced by politicians. 

Regressive regulation continues governmental underutilization and undervalues the workforce. Opportunity for federal change has come. 

A seismic shift in world leadership is changing the geopolitical landscape forever. Consider these global changes.

China has undergone a 70% modification in its cabinet and national leadership. 

The French Republic is greeting a fresh new opposition leader, Socialist Party Chief Martine Aubry. 

 Angela Merkel, a woman, leads Germany,  Europe’s most robust economy. 

New global governance is inevitable from Asia to the Eurozone and the United States. Transforming the foundation of fiscal policies that shape how countries govern women must change.

Women now account for half of the world’s university attendance. They comprise 40% of the global workforce – yet they still lack formidable legislative power that directly affects them.

Often cloaked in the guise of economic austerity measures, government programs supporting women’s needs are the first to be sacrificed. 

According to World Bank’s 2012 “World Development Report,” fiscal policies are the oil that lubricates the constructs of governmental and private agencies. They coop and steer the advancement of the female population in all countries. Statistics illustrate that growth in the number of educated women worldwide has been tremendous in emerging countries. Yet they still lack parity in nations like the UAE, India, and Pakistan.

Female heads of households have become the most oversized pocket of poverty among the ethnic and the poor in all countries. They are most likely to be economically victimized by discrimination than any other demographic.

The world ignores an essential fact. 

The realities are that the attainment of equality represents freedom for all to contribute to the economic success of their country. A critical roadblock to achieving this utopia is in creating financial parity.

Institutionalized gender discrimination is a construct in credit markets. Marginalization is especially real when underemployment is rooted in gender and economic status. Blend these realities with the inability to represent and have an equal say in governments. The achievement of upward mobility for women is doomed to failure.

The European Union and some eastern countries have instituted gender-biased budget initiatives. 

They are policies broadly based with a focus on the health and education of women. These initiatives have received mixed reviews; due in part to their application in emerging markets. In addition, the complacency for change and ending old dogmas in developed nations continue to block the full implementation of these projects.

Legislated tweaks to established gender-friendly policies are considered “sacrifices” in the name of fiscal prudence. Many western nations create appearances of transformative healthcare policies while endemic poverty and discrimination toward women continue.

Global economists must demonstrate female participation in all economic constructs. Without complete and seamless gender parity in all nations, there can be no claim to victory over women’s rights.

“There was a woman at Alexandria named Hypatia, daughter of the philosopher Theon, who made such attainments in literature and science as to far surpass all the philosophers of her own time. Having succeeded to the school of Plato and Plotinus, she explained the principles of philosophy to her auditors, many of whom came from a distance to receive her instructions.”

—Socrates Scholasticus, Ecclesiastical History

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