Gender discrimination is not helping humanity it is hurting humanity. In my opinion gender discrimination is what lead to slavery, but I digress. However, I do strongly affirm that to educate a woman is to empower the world at large. This is the true "Butterfly Effect"! When we educate women, women move on to make very educated and caring decisions about their family and community.
Sheryl WuDunn and Nickolas Kristoff co authored a wonderful book and documentary called "Half the Sky -Turning oppression into opportunity"
The most important relationship is with the person in the mirror...YOU. You can't begin to really love anyone else until you have a full understanding of who you are and really accept yourself.
I have spent many years learning and trying to share this information with women. when i put my hands on this book i was shouting so much as i was reading it tears started to flow. I promised myself I would share this book every chance i could.
The Mastery of Love is a great book/tool in self discovery and how to accept yourself and other people for who they are and how to use discernment when dealing with your relationships with friends, family and your love life.
This video sums up the book beautifully.
Below is the 2 part audio book "The Mastery of Love"
Poet and activist Alice Walker reads her new poem, "Democratic
Womanism," and discusses her thoughts on President Obama's legacy,
including his use of drone strikes. "You ask me why I smile when you
tell me you intend in the coming national elections to hold your nose
and vote for the lesser of two evils," reads Walker. "There are more
than two evils out there, is one reason I smile."
Riane Eisler describes how humankind once lived in a caring, sharing
environment. That period, which lasted for tens of thousands of
years, survived, though barely, just into historical times. It was
characterized by a worship of the divine feminine as represented
by the chalice in the title of Eisler's book.
In a blink of the eye, historically speaking, that environment
was brutally overthrown and replaced with the beginnings of the
patriarchy in which we live today. Those who overthrew this golden
age worshipped not life and creativity, but death and destruction;
in short, the blade. Those in power today continue to worship that
blade, which has been changed by the rapid rise of technology into
the lethal systems that could end all life on the planet in a matter
of days or hours.
The premise of The Chalice and the Blade is that the rapid
transition from a partnership society to a male dominator society
was the result of the sociological equivalent of a "critical bifurcation
point" in Chaos theory. Eisler explains in some detail how the currently
popular scientific theory applies to that sudden shift into darkness
that occurred approximately six or seven thousand years ago. However,
she also goes on to propose that we once again face a critical bifurcation
point; that we live in an exciting, dangerous time in which we can
just as rapidly overthrow our hierarchically controlled patriarchal
system and replace it with a technologically advanced model of the
partnership system in which both genders work together to emphasize
the nurturing side of life.
