A Tale of
Two Genders and Age of Inequality
“One percent of our world’s population owns half of
the world’s wealth. The wealth of this one percent amounts to $110 trillion
which is 65 times the total wealth of the bottom half of the world’s
population. Seven out of ten people in our world live in countries where
economic inequality has increased, often drastically, in the last 30 years.
Should this massive concentration of economic resources in the hands of the few
concern us at all?” (The
Age of Inequality)
Women
are somehow used to inequality based on gender models decided by just one of
the gender and never really agreed by the other one on which the inequality was
imposed “by natural differences between sexes”. There is nothing natural in any
kind of inequality, it is social construct created by people and it can and
should be deconstructed by the people for the benefit of all.
We
are living the age of the worst kind of
feminization of the planet widening the gap of inequality in post global
époque with very few having almost everything and huge majority of population
having almost nothing, living the imposed model and social construct imposed by
very few. It is not sustainable, just like it was not sustainable for women to
live without any kind of rights for thousands of years but it lasted,
nevertheless.
Shall
we allow the age of huge inequality to last that long? Can we understand that
inequality is not of right, left or centrist ideology, democracy or
dictatorship but of being inhuman to our own societies?
What
should be the role of women of XXI century to achieve the goal of less
inequality for all?
It
is a brand new chapter in tale of two genders wherever we might live on the
planet, it should be a chapter of dialogue between man and women about shared
responsibility for the process through which we should create more balanced,
sustainable societies with less people at the bottom and more people on the top
and most people somewhere in between, with world wealth not redistributed but in
sustainable way used for the benefit of most of the people.
We
need more women as decision makers in economy, politics, culture, finances,
sport, everywhere not just because they are females, but because of their
different approach to inequality, because of the narrative of the gender that
was the narrative of inequality from the beginning of human kind.
Inequality
is not just about the poverty, it is much more about the access and chances,
about mechanisms with which anyone, born anywhere can change the game in which
losers and winners are written and decided in advance.
We
need more women in everyplace where there is any kind of decision making
process that make an impact on everyday life of millions of people, we need a
dialogue through which women should be listened and treated equal.
We
need more woman entrepreneurs having the same access to all kind of recourses
as men have, we need more women in financial sector to reverse the process of
worlds virtual money creating real debts to business and states enlarging the
inequality instead boosting the growth and progress.
Financial
and economic power is irreversibly global, political power looks irreversibly
local and that created the age of non-controlled finance system in which states
and societies serve the purpose by increasing the wealth of those who are
already wealthy. Whole states are now in the same social position as women used
to be till the XX century, they are there to obey and to be submitted to the
rules they cannot make and cannot change.
That
should be the role for women, to make the rules and to change the rules,
because that is how they already won the first chapter of a tale of two genders
at the beginning of XX century for the better. The same recipe for cooking the
better world should be used once more.
The
world of XXI century is in a need of new paradigm and that new paradigm cannot
be created without the women.
(*) written for About women in Business and Politics at the Economic Forum
