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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, portrayed her country as a sick child in need of her care during her campaign five years ago.
interesting how she still felt the need to lean into "maternal" stereotypes in order to run? possible discussion question: whether or not women are truly in power if they're still seen as mother figures?
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With few exceptions, the greater the power of women, the greater the country's economic success.
interesting: "darwinian" shift in geopolitical leanings,
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plummeted to just over 15 percent by 2003.
good example of women becoming more empowered, and thereby being more willing to bear children. as their lives improve, prospective lives of their daughters improve in tandem
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women have killed themselves (or been killed) for failing to bear sons. In her iconic 1949 book, The Second Sex, the French feminist Simone de Beauvoir suggested that women so detested their own "feminine condition" that they regarded their newborn daughters with irritation and disgust. Now the centuries-old preference for sons is eroding
lessened punishment for being a woman, less associated shame. pride in femininity presses women to want more daughters, now that they have power to pass on
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ratio is now as high as 2 to 1. Polling data on American sex preference is sparse, and does not show a clear preference for girls. But the picture from the doctor's office unambiguously does. A newer method for sperm selection, called MicroSort, is currently completing Food and Drug Administration clinical trials. The girl requests for that method run at about 75 percent.
mixed information on what girl-preference rate is: -- ericsson: 2:1 -- polling data: no distinct difference -- microsort: 75%
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Feminists of the era did not take kindly to Ericsson and his Marlboro Man veneer. To them, the lab cowboy and his sperminator portended a dystopia of mass-produced boys
not an unreasonable worry! especially in the 1970s, male prevalence/power was much higher--- women were only barely able (if even?) to get credit cards.
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The process, he said, was like "cutting out cattle at the gate." The cattle left flailing behind the gate were of course the X's, which seemed to please him
men as "cattle, flailing at the gate", interesting use of language, insinuation of loss
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What if modern, postindastrial society is simply better suited to women?
so many spelling mistakes in this article... anyway. suggests a model of society entirely outside of searching for "equality"? insinuates relegation of men to a female-like subservience role in the face of female pop'n growth
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