Still, today, I do see in many women—even women with much worldly success—this same distrust of one’s own powers and paralysis of one’s own energies. And, dare I say, I think it hails from similar quarters: a cultural sense of the inferiority of woman qua woman.
Reclaiming Collective Intelligence
In Reclaiming Collective Intelligence, we argued that humanity’s survival depends on “improving our ability to improve”. Women’s roles as caregivers, organisers, and connectors place them at the heart of this process. Yet their intelligence has been systematically undervalued. Only half of women receive official disaster warnings compared to over 70% of men. Still, when disaster strikes, women are often the ones who mobilise, improvise, and stabilise. They are the living repositories of “what works.”
In the real world, meanwhile, ordinary men and women are moving peacefully towards a more gender-equal world. Dramatic economic improvements for women are being matched by a huge increase in the amount of domestic work and child care being done by men. Support for the ideals of gender equality continues to rise. There are more men in our homes caring for kids, and more women in the Houses of Congress, C-suites, and state legislatures.
Childbirth trauma is a major public health issue in the United States, as well as globally, with up to one third of mothers1 describing their birth experiences as traumatic, and up to 20 percent reporting clinically significant symptoms of PTSD, though the number is likely higher given the prevalence of underreporting, misdiagnosis, and an absence of routine screening protocols and any formal diagnosis.
The hysterical commentators warning that women are destroying civilisation really need to man up. Alas, male victimhood is a rich seam.
The fear that women are conspiring against men online, voting with our hormones, capturing institutions and, naturally, causing wokeism is almost irresistibly appealing
Academia was once a man’s game. Most early American universities were founded as training academies for clergy and other professional men. But the tide turned quickly. Women have received the majority of American undergraduate degrees every year since 1982, master’s degrees since 1987, and doctorates since 2006.
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