Recently there’s been much encouraging news for the progress of womenfolk. A study of US Census data* found that single women in their 20s living in New York City now out-earn their male counterparts by 17 percent. Separately, Harvard Medical School has been admitting more women than men for some years now. And all over the country, more women are earning college degrees than men. Heck, women run companies, states, and even whole countries, as they should.
This is certainly an improvement over the days when women were neither allowed to vote nor own property. Empowerment of half the world’s population is a welcome trend, so hallelujah to that.
But has there been a downside to this progress?
One of the central tenets of Taoism is the principle of complementarity of opposites. The principle manifests itself everywhere from elementary particle physics to human relations. Electrons balance protons. Sunlight creates shade. Yin balances yang. To every positive trait, there is a shadow side. And every negative trait contains a hidden boon. A coin cannot have only one side.
Whatever force has brought about women’s progress — call it feminism, enlightenment, or simple economic imperative — has its shadow side. In the case of the three things I’m going to tell you about, the downside is pretty high (more…)
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Written by Ali Binazir MD MPhil on 27 July 2011