A revolution is quietly changing the role of women, particularly in developed countries. Might as well call it capitalism feminist movement — market forces and female talent, ambition and desire for a strong combination. Half the population of the world's women, finally got rid of the repressed their thousands of years of legal and social constraints.
We often think that capitalism and feminism is a natural ally. Conservatives are often United States consumer capitalism's greatest supporters, career women to enter the field of vision, inexplicably become hostile. At the same time, the feminist also past is called capitalism patriarchal system hold contradictory attitude.
However, fundamentally, the strength of the market economy is playing a declaration than any exercise or should, the female to the power powerful position, while the female is driving the world economy after the second world war by leaps and bounds as one of the most important motivation. The Economist (Economist) magazine has been the global gross domestic product (GDP) of the feminization of the "women in economy" (womenomics) of title, and a shocking analysis found that over the past 10 years, the number of women in the paid labour force increases on world economic growth in the contribution exceeds the rapid rise of China or new technologies.
Comparison of centuries of sex discrimination, this striking changes. The girls were so thoroughly conquered the developed classroom educators how to rescue the boy behind. This victory has continued to college — enter university woman than men. In the United States, 25 years of age in 55% of University students are women.
The increase in female knowledge training, which in turn translate into labour population, the proportion of women on the rise. In the United States, two-thirds of working-age women have paid work is the 1950 level twice, and the men's 77% of paid work has a more or less the same rate. Women also became entrepreneurs — in every four people in the United States, there is a women-owned businesses.
Capitalism one feminist impulse, is a commercial discovery: gender diversity helps to improve performance, sometimes even relatively large. PepsiCo Inc. (PepsiCo) new Chief Executive Officer of yingde La. tapanui (Indra Nooyi), and the other ten Fortune 500 Enterprise female person from consumer industry, this is no accident. Most of these companies are female consumers, so that they can show a female run better, of course. In fact, a Catalyst by consulting firms, often quoted study found that female executives more companies than those of female executives less company has better financial results.
Capitalism, feminism's second important impetus involves personal factors. Today's feminists often lament that few women describe themselves as feminists. But women are doing is making to improve the financial situation of the family. Even in work with children these worrying problem, many studies show that family financial success of their children's future is the most important factor in the decision.
Of course, the feminist movement of capitalism is far from being won: some glass ceiling seems to be indestructible. This spring, the New York Times (The New York Times) pointed out that in 2005, a major law firm in the United States, only 17% of the partner is a female. In view of the legal professional men and women graduates roughly, this proportion is very sad. Stanford University (Stanford) Neurobiology Professor Ben. Reyes (Ben Barres) believes that this phenomenon is still partly attributed to sex discrimination. He's perspectives have unusual weight: he is a degeneration of the man. Palestinian Professor original female Reyes named Barbara (Barbara), as the female and male scientists engaged in the work. Last month in his "natural" (Nature) magazine article, description of the "Barbara" your work is to be ignored, and these work only with "this" is the name of the show will be appreciated.
A more serious problem may be that people could not withdraw from the floor. The female has emerged as the paid labor force, but men yet all assume should assume the housework. However, even in the private space, market forces are beginning to make an impact. Statistics Canada (Statistics Canada) last month, the release of a time-use study found that as the wife's income increases, the husband spent on housework time increases, and the wife with the salary raise and spend the time on housework. When his wife's annual salary to $ 100 k and above, between husband and wife paid between labor and housework allocations may equal division.
Women may be in another invisible forces — population structure, discover more powerful alliance. All the rich countries are at the beginning of a population crisis, birth rates began to fall to below replacement levels. In rich countries, will continue to decline in the birth rate due to the increase in female employment seems to be logical, but statistics show the opposite result. Some of the highest birth rate in developed countries, such as the United States and Sweden, the proportion of women in paid employment actually much higher than in countries such as Japan and Italy, and its birth rate is also higher than the latter.
In regard to what causes low birth rate in developed countries, a variety of factors point to point to, job insecurity, lack of child care services provided by the State. But my personal theory is: a country of male supremacy doctrine more serious, the lower their birth rate. Market forces that employment for most women attractive, if we want to maintain the attractiveness of nurseries or social forces must adapt to the situation.
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