Study of 61 nations finds higher sexism predicts lower GDP, lower "global peace index" (more militarization, lower safety and security), greater antidemocratic practices & shorter lifespans. Sexism truly harms us all, men, women, children.
https://theconversation.com/sexism-linked-to-social-ills-for-men-and-women-finds-largest-cross-cultural-study-of-its-kind-247183
@amydiehl and what this article doesn't mention is that this 61 nation study -replicates- findings from several other studies, including a large scale study (of 15 thousand people in 19 countries) published in 2000- a quarter of a century earlier.
IOW: These are not -new- findings. And yet -due to cultural narratives based in sexism itself, it's pretty doubtful many people in the wider public knew about this.
@amydiehl As in investor, I can say that I'm not interested in companies that don't support diversity and inclusion. It's documented, yes, that those firms will not be as successful.
The nations with the highest sexism also have the most rapidly declining birth rates.
Russia. Korea. Japan. USA. Afghanistan.
All societies poisoned by toxic attitudes of male supremacy blameshift to women's rights for their demographic decline.
Consequences.
Why have children in a nation where the next generation has no hope of improving conditions?
Why form a marriage when it means a lifetime of exploitation & mistreatment?
Why have a family when MAGA oppose all ...
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...all support for those children?
No help with housing, medical care, food, or education.
Early childbirth is the leading predictor of a poverty stricken retirement for women.
Fascist movements always end in war. Why raise kids to feed a forthcoming war machine?
https://jacobin.com/2022/08/capitalism-low-birth-rate-labor-abortion-contraceptives-childcare
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/technology/replacement-theory.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/07/30/russia-putin-antifeminism-women-children-society/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/19/business/sexism-women-birthplace-workplace.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/25/opinion/american-birthrate-patriarchy.html
https://www.iar-gwu.org/blog/iar-web/south-koreas-4b
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/27/opinion/south-korea-fertility-rate-feminism.html
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The same GOP oil oligarchs funding climate denialism & racism want children & grandchildren for the planet they are frying & the democracy they immiserated.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/02/opinion/anti-natalism.html
Why have children where lawmakers ensure women bleed to death in hospital parking lots?
https://www.propublica.org/article/josseli-barnica-death-miscarriage-texas-abortion-ban
Or a "health" insurance system that declines 40% of health claims or drives OBGyn caregivers out?
why should people breed work beasts (Jack London) for billionaires?
Their interests are counter to the interest of populations. It’s extraordinarily idiotic.
They don’t have workers, but they don’t expect to need them because AI. They don’t have customers, but they don’t want customers because they don’t pay people enough to have disposable income.
The devastation they’ve wrecked on education, respect for science or expertise, undermines science.
They’ve made it illegal to engage in a fundamental process of refinement in technological advancement, which is to reverse engineer, and tinker with existing designed.
Just look at Afghanistan.
@amydiehl It would be nice if we could sell the prospect of being decent to each other on the basis of, well, being decent to each other, rather than some made-up economic virtues designed to make us consume more. It's absurd to say murdering a person is bad because there's one less consumer in the economy. Why say sexism is bad because women wouldn't be able to earn and consume then?
@amydiehl Disappointing to find no exploration of the correlation/causation issue.
@FollicleMite @amydiehl Yes. It is not in itself surprising that a society that is bad for everyone but the rulers is also bad for women.
@amydiehl Years ago, MIT's Center for Collective Intelligence did a study on small group decision-making & found, to their surprise, that small groups with women in them did much better than small-groups without. I would venture to say that the more diversity of experience at the table the better the outcome but then woddaino?
@amydiehl Is this a "sexism" issue or rather a "patriarchy" issue..?
@amydiehl I truly think we should consider men not to be rational enough to vote. I know, this is sexism as well, but I truly think so.
@amydiehl I'd be surprised if there's any adult alive capable of knowing that who does not already know that. some facts are self-evident, and that is one of them.
... and it's baked into GOP