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History of Feminism

Warpy

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3. Education of women is vital in areas of high population growth

Reply to sheshe2 (Original post)

Wed Mar 4, 2015, 11:20 PM

Mar 2015

because nothing else has ever succeeded in lowering birth rates there.

When a woman's only value is as a baby incubator, preferably all male babies, she will pop out children until it finally kills her. Even modest education and the path to opening an equally modest business raises her horizons and she feels her wealth is greater than that of an perambulating flower pot into which a man puts his seed and she limits her family in order to run her business.

Pushing birth control has been a serious flop. Education and microloans have succeeded where it failed.

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And so much wrong could corrected with gender inequities abolished ismnotwasm Mar 2015 #1

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Education of women is vital in areas of high population growth Warpy Mar 2015 #3

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A long ago quote 2naSalit Mar 2015 #5

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