"... ultimately society will crumble without greater female rights. So further control measures may necessarily have to be a short-term reaction."
Short-term solutions have a nasty habit of becoming long-term ways of life. The Handmaid's Tale is fiction, and like all fiction says more about its social context than actual real-world severely female-oppressive regimes (of which there are many).
"ready and willing"
OK, "ready and willing" could cover everything I mentioned.
"alternative: UN viral-like efforts with female education, UNDP efforts, etc."
Of course, it's only an opinion; but I don't see this as an alternative. Education of women is the only way of raising their status as opposed to their value.
Education programmes for women form key work for every major NGO (Non-Governmental Organisation) in the world. Apart from raising the status of the women involved in such programmes, side effects include lowered child mortality, better educated and healthier children, increased general, reproductive and sexual health (men and women), home income generation, capacity building, better resistance to crises and problems, and, in the end, decreased poverty.
"no one seems willing to seriously try any more" See above.
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Re: Impact
Date: November 17th, 2003 05:38 am (UTC)From:Short-term solutions have a nasty habit of becoming long-term ways of life. The Handmaid's Tale is fiction, and like all fiction says more about its social context than actual real-world severely female-oppressive regimes (of which there are many).
"ready and willing"
OK, "ready and willing" could cover everything I mentioned.
"alternative: UN viral-like efforts with female education, UNDP efforts, etc."
Of course, it's only an opinion; but I don't see this as an alternative. Education of women is the only way of raising their status as opposed to their value.
Education programmes for women form key work for every major NGO (Non-Governmental Organisation) in the world. Apart from raising the status of the women involved in such programmes, side effects include lowered child mortality, better educated and healthier children, increased general, reproductive and sexual health (men and women), home income generation, capacity building, better resistance to crises and problems, and, in the end, decreased poverty.
"no one seems willing to seriously try any more"
See above.