Maybe it's my own ideological bias, but the laws of supply and demand should eventually be felt. Mind you 20 years is only a generation ... one simply isn't going to see massive change in so short a period in such societies.
Ultimately: the ruling patriarchy will be forced into a hard choice between female betterment or social collapse. And yes, women will bear the worst brunt of this entire evolved situation.
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I wonder how AIDS is accelerating these effects, and how things will turn out. I think the greatest tragedy we're seeing in places like eastern Africa is the lack of an indigenous government response to these challenges: like setting up social security networks to supplant familial links and traditions of polygamous marriages of (AIDS) widows to protect family resources.
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Re: FYI, in practice now...
Date: November 14th, 2003 09:52 am (UTC)From:Ultimately: the ruling patriarchy will be forced into a hard choice between female betterment or social collapse. And yes, women will bear the worst brunt of this entire evolved situation.
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I wonder how AIDS is accelerating these effects, and how things will turn out. I think the greatest tragedy we're seeing in places like eastern Africa is the lack of an indigenous government response to these challenges: like setting up social security networks to supplant familial links and traditions of polygamous marriages of (AIDS) widows to protect family resources.