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Education of women, key to global stability

submitted by persephone

1 decade 4 years 1 week ago

"Half the Sky" authors, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn are interviewed on Al Jazeera English, regarding their reporting on the relationship between a country's stability and the status of its women. Countries which value females, ensure that they survive childhood and are fully educated and the result is that they are less likely to experience a youth bulge and the extremism that results. Such countries also benefit immensely from women taking up economic and cultural roles, than countries which don't value females.

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choggie

says...

Over 20 years ago Chomsky recognized the ruse of the facetious delineation of the terms "first world" "third world" etc countries. The world under the dying paradigm is being equalized in the economic, social, political, spiritual, dumbing-down of all of her inhabitants.
The US according to the arcane terminology is now effectively a 3rd world country. People's heads here are so full of trivial tidbits and snippets of information that intelligence is measured in one's command of useless factoids of information sans experiential or practical aptitude. Wage-slavery keeps people unable to effectively operate at a max holistic, developmental potential. That's right-people are becoming stupid, more superficial and self-absorbed, and this by insidious design. I know a chick in her 3rd year of college who thinks Australia was a peace-loving non-participant in world war 2. Airhead.
Good to see you on the grid again Persephone!