yes i agree with your comment - men are now coasting - that is - they move on inertia - riding the male system designed 2000 years ago - but women have the momentum and therefore they will conquer the workplace within 50 years
i have been researching this topic lately and as i wrote here http://makebelieve1.wordpress.com/about/ women have kept alive from generation to generation the memory of a society where females were rulers of men
–all authority was vested in the woman who discharged every kind of public duty – the men looked after domestic affairs and did as they were told by their wives – men were not allowed to undertake war service or to exercise any functions of government or to fulfill any public office – such as might have given them more spirit to set themselves up against the women – the children were handed over immediately after birth to the men who reared them–
For the record, this book is pretty controversial. It theorizes about a society that may have existed over 6000 years ago. It references the Amazons - who were mythological - and there is quite a bit of disagreement in the academic community about the validity of the conclusions.
--there is quite a bit of disagreement in the academic community about the validity of the conclusions--
i read a book for myself and draw my own conclusions - the authority of an -academic community- means nothing to me - if you read the book and wrote your own opinion that would have been a valuable contribution instead of a reference to the authority of something that does not exist namely -academic community-
i have been researching this topic lately and as i wrote here http://makebelieve1.wordpress.com/about/ women have kept alive from generation to generation the memory of a society where females were rulers of men
this information comes from the book -when god was a woman- http://www.amazon.com/When-God-Woman-Merlin-Stone/dp/0156961... especially this quote
in the original female society
–all authority was vested in the woman who discharged every kind of public duty – the men looked after domestic affairs and did as they were told by their wives – men were not allowed to undertake war service or to exercise any functions of government or to fulfill any public office – such as might have given them more spirit to set themselves up against the women – the children were handed over immediately after birth to the men who reared them–
http://books.google.com/books?id=plkmFjler8cC&printsec=f...