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• For new ideas to be translated into new realities requires not only clarity of vision but also the opportunity to change old realities.

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  Change, Opportunity, Reality

  Riane Tennenhaus Eisler (1987). “The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future”, Harpercollins

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• For both Adam Smith and Karl Marx the essential work of caring for people, starting in early childhood, was "just women's work" - and in their minds not even classified as "productive work."

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  Caring, Productive Work, People

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• We are rapidly moving into the post-industrial age, when we must redefine what is "productive" work, as more and more jobs are being replaced by automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence.

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  Jobs, Moving, Productive Work

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Neither capitalism nor socialism is capable of meeting our unprecedented global challenges. Both came out of early industrial times, and we are now well into the post-industrial age. Both came out of times when the West still oriented much more to the domination side of the social scale, so both these theories did not pay attention to caring for people and nature.

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  Caring, People, Challenges

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The good news is that there is strong movement in this direction of shifting from domination systems to partnership systems. Over the past several hundred years, one progressive movement after another has challenged traditions of domination - from the 18th century "rights of man" movement challenging the "divinely ordained right" of kings to rule their "subjects" to today's environmental movement challenging the once hallowed "conquest of nature."

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  Strong, Kings, Past

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• there are only two basic ways of structuring the relations between the female and male halves of humanity. All societies are patterned on either a dominator model - in which human hierarchies are ultimately backed up by force or the threat of force - or a partnership model, with variations in between.

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  Two, Humanity, Males

  Riane Tennenhaus Eisler (1987). “The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future”, Harpercollins

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• We can learn a great deal from whales. It is the same lesson we can learn from our close genetic relatives, the bonobo apes of the Congo. Here mothers have a great deal of authority, there is very little violence (with no signs of sexual violence against females), and their society is held together by sharing and caring rather than by fear and force.

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  Mother, Caring, Whales

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Care work is still primarily done by women for free in families and for poverty wages in the market, and this is a major reason that worldwide women are the mass of the poor and the poorest of the poor.

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  Wages, Done, Care

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• It is not coincidental that for so-called religious fundamentalists - whether they are Western or Eastern, Muslim or Christian - rigid male dominance and "holy wars" are priorities. Or that competing sects of the same religion, such as Sunni and Shia, are at each other's throats. In these cultures, women are rigidly controlled by men.

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  Christian, Religious, War

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Can we really expect adequate funding for programs to clean up our environment and care for people's basic needs as long as the socially essential work of caretaking and cleaning is relegated to women for little or no pay?

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  Long, People, Care

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• And this exclusion of "women's work" continues, despite United Nations data gathered since 1975 (the beginning of the UN Decade for Women) indicating that women globally contribute two-thirds of the world's work hours, for which - given the imbalanced, unjust, and truly peculiar nature of the accounting characteristic of dominator economics - they globally earn only one-tenth of what men do and own a mere one-hundredth of the world's property.

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  Men, Data, Two

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• We urgently need an integrated progressive political agenda if we are to have foundations for a more equitable, sustainable, caring world.

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  Caring, Political, Foundation

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Care work produces public goods, and should be supported in families by policies such as paid parental leave and caregiver tax credits, and by investments in good training and wages for caregiving, including early childhood education, in the market.

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  Childhood, Training, Wages

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Women represent 70 percent of the 1.3 billion people in our world who live in absolute poverty. Consequently, as Joan Holmes, president of the Hunger Project, points out, any realistic efforts to change patterns of chronic hunger and poverty require changing traditions of discrimination against women.

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  Our World, Hunger And Poverty, People

  Riane Eisler (2008). “The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics”, p.124, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• For Islamic fundamentalists male "honor" is equated with control over the women in a man's family - to the extent that killing a woman who makes her own sexual choices (like marrying without her father's consent) is considered honorable, rather than criminal.

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  Father, Islamic, Men

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Difference is not equated with superiority or inferiority, dominating or being dominated, being served or serving.

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  Differences, Inferiority, Serving

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• If we are serious about breaking cycles of poverty, we have to change this (economy).

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  Poverty, Serious, Economy

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Schools in which students and teachers relate as partners-where Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication is part of every interaction are communities of learning, rather than top-down, impersonal factories. Young people begin to see school as a safe and exciting place of exploration where they can share feelings and ideas, and where each child is recognized, valued and nurtured.

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  Teacher, Children, Communication

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• Obviously there is pain in childbirth. But giving birth is also a moment of awe and wonder, a moment when the true miracle of aliveness, and of a woman's amazing part in that miracle, is suddenly experienced in every cell of one's body. It is in that sense truly an altered state of consciousness.

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  Pain, Cells, Awe And Wonder

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• war and the 'war of the sexes' are neither divinely nor biologically ordained.

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  Sex, War

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• The bad news is that the movement toward the partnership side of the social scale (and it is always a matter of degree, as no society is a pure partnership or domination system) has been fiercely resisted and countered by periodic regressions. So domination systems have rebuilt themselves in different forms - be they secular or religious, eastern or western, leftist or rightist.

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  Religious, Degrees, Different

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• For most progressives, what happens in families is a matter of "just" women's issues and children's issues. So progressive movements have focused primarily on dismantling the top of the dominator pyramid (politics and economics) and left its foundations (domination in family, gender, and other intimate relations) in place.

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  Children, Pyramids, Issues

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• At the core of every child is an intact human.

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  Children, Humans, Core

  Riane Eisler (2008). “Tomorrow's Children”, p.6, Basic Books

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• Many young people are hungry for new thinking. So I invite them to use the tools and other resources we have developed to accelerate the shift from domination to partnership.

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  Thinking, People, Tools

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Nonviolent Communication is a powerful tool for peace and partnership. It shows us how to listen empathically and also communicate our authentic feelings and needs. Marshall Rosenberg has a genius for developing and teaching practical skills urgently needed for a less violent, more caring world.

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  Powerful, Communication, Teaching

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