is a good time to reflect on the development of our species. If we compare the technological advances with social progress, we must say that while on one hand we have entered the future of intelligent machines, on the other we installed in the same conflicts that have plagued humanity for centuries. While wars have changed style, yet we do not enjoy the desired world peace. Although today we communicate globally, personal communications and community seem to have given way to the depersonalization and isolation. Physical contact is being replaced quickly by email, instant messaging and cell phones. In a world divided between rich and poor countries, there are those who move into the future and others who remain wedded to a tribal past, static and anachronistic, either for religious or economic misery that gives them access to resources necessary to fit into what we consider progress.
Within human groups this dichotomy between past and future is more evident than among women. Since the women's liberation in the 60's to the present, women have been making leaps and tumbles feel in the panorama of humanity. Although today more than ever the recognition that humanity must include the feminine gender roles are reluctant to give way to a more equitable manner. The struggle in recent years seems to have abandoned the field of the two sexes: male and female, to claim the rights of marginalized genres: gays, lesbians, transsexuals. While advancing their rights, ancestral struggle of women for their full social recognition has stalled.
The magnificent feminism that ensued, in the twentieth century, one of the least recognized speed but more fundamental in our world history, has been lagging and Discussion matters of substance left to concentrate on specific claims. Abortion rights, important as it is, has become, unwittingly, I think, "defining the axis of modern feminism. Be in favor of abortion is now identifying the feminist women who are not. That look reductionist and limited, but able to turn and shake the mood, has forced feminism to dig and take a defensive speech.
born with the advantages that their mothers, with their excessive and relentless battles, provided them, young women, most do not feel or identify with feminism. Rather, they are easy prey to conservative discourses demonize the desire of women to develop their full potential, warning about the damage that his absence from home will represent, not only for children but for their own desire to love and be loved. Thus, today's modern woman claims without problems of their right to education more superior and exquisite, but does not blink when it comes to filing their qualifications and expertise to devote himself to be a mother.
the contrary, there are those who renounce the world public with an attitude even defiant, turning back to the home and traditional role in a sort of battle cry. Where are the statements about the need for balance, asks one. Can maybe change the social relations if women do not take care of him start to see the man that the first justice that has to fight is one that must exist within their own family? Why must be the woman who almost completely assume responsibility for the children if the man also produces and also be enriched as a whole person if you get involved in your care? How much good it would do to ease your testosterone male with a few drops of cooing maternal tenderness to their children, changing diapers, feeding them? But these tasks, for man, remain outstanding. Those who do are done with the awareness that concern them properly, do to show how good they are and how to "help" their wives.
Most societies, except perhaps the Scandinavians, accept the ancient division of labor between men and women as an unchangeable fact, as a natural fact. In Scandinavian societies, this situation has changed because women present in politics inconceivable numbers in other countries, have forced a change of mentality. At birth a child, for example, the couple is given a year's leave: six months to six months for women and men. The commitment to care for children becomes inherent and paternity, as it has always been for motherhood. Both companies and their employees, men and women plan their schedules and buildings taking into account their family needs, ie, structuring flexible schedules and child care building on the premises. But these changes designed to promote a new system of relationships within families, are just a dream world. In most countries, women must confront, when deciding whether to play or not, the fact that motherhood means to them an effective reduction in their benefits in the workplace. No wonder birth rates have dropped so precipitously in industrialized countries.
One can not help but wonder if the current trend for women to give up the freedom that their hard-earned, to return to traditional roles, not the result of the barriers that men have risen within their corporate worlds to protect their areas and ensure that women's competition, which is envisioned as a powerful surge in the 70's, were forced to abandon their attempts to be equal in the face of developments such as the "double day", or the vaunted "loneliness of the successful woman."
It goes without saying that in many regions of the world, this conflict between home and work, public life or private life, is not even an option for many women who still live their lives in conditions of virtual slavery under arbitrary barbarous customs sanctioned by cultural or religious uses. That in the XXI century humanity accept even the crimes of "honor", stoning, confinement and lack of rights that are thousands of women in the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America, is an example of the bias which is the concept of civilization and development, and tolerance with which the patriarchal world justifies its failure to demand humane treatment for women when it is able to impose embargoes and trigger wars on behalf of threats, often made, that suit interests politicians.
Paradoxically, what we might consider the crisis as the women's movement or the doubts and anxieties that lead to women today often to give his public life for the sake of work which have won universal recognition eternum ad contains from an optimistic point of view like mine, the seed of a new proposal. I have often wondered if a female world would be different, if it would take, in all this tendency to globalize and go at any price in the future of technology, introduce the female ethic: an ethic of compassion, conciliation, to care for each the other, a maternal ethics. Perhaps women who currently leave their jobs to return home are not willing to give up that ethics and wrongly in my view, intended to cover the sun with a finger refuge in the comfort of intimacy where you can still claim that matriarchal qualities save at least their small families. The reality, however, is that such behavior of ostrich only helps to perpetuate the problems of inequality and not deliver their children to face the agonizing choice between developing their potential or sacrifice it for the sake of parenting. The women of today, still in the early twenty-first century, we again urge the deep cool content emancipatory feminists of the mid-twentieth century to rethink the issue of equality, not merely as a struggle for the improvement of our gender, but as a vital need for humanity to renew from a thought until now relegated to private spaces. The modern world with its crisis of values \u200b\u200bneeds the experience of women in the field of reconciliation, dialogue and re-prioritization of human relations to be good neighbors, caring for the sick, defend the weak, to care for each other. But there are existing structures in the workplace or the state which will allow us to females because, yes, a higher incidence public life. Build terms, without forcing us to impair or masculinized, allow us to participate fully in our society requires a redefinition of the paternal and maternal roles within the family, requiring a political agenda that requires companies to design modern reproduction and upbringing of future citizens as a collective responsibility, essential to the happiness and harmony of the whole, and can not depend on the "generous sacrifice" half of humanity. To achieve the level of awareness that these changes require that women must assume a more active role in the instances of local and national power. We are women, with our inventiveness and creativity, we must return to the trenches that we have left. Only then will we be required players to build a better world for everyone.
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