Future Hope Column: The Rising of the Women is the Rising of Us All

By Ted Glick 

“Women and men all over the world are, for the first time in such large numbers, frontally challenging the male-dominator/female-dominated human relations model that is the foundation of a dominator worldview. At the same time the idea. . . of seeing the ‘the other’ as ‘the enemy’ is also being challenged. There is, most significantly, a growing awareness that the emerging higher consciousness of our global ‘partnership’ is integrally related to a fundamental reexamination and transformation of the roles of both women and men.”

-The Chalice and the Blade, by Riane Eisler, HarperSan Francisco, 1989

It is of vital importance that more and more of us internalize the fact that for 95% or more of the time that the ancestors of today’s homo sapiens, today’s human beings, walked the earth, from about 300,000 years ago until now, archaeological and other research shows that women and men cooperated in the decision-making about how to survive and develop. There are places in the world, particularly among indigenous people who have resisted corporate domination, where this is still the case. In these historical and present day societies, women had power and were/are affirmatively appreciated by men.

We need to understand that the last 6-7,000 years of human history are an aberration. Prior to that time, when women and men generally lived in cooperative ways, human societies were not about oppression, domination, exploitation and murderous wars. And even during this later period, there have been repeated and constant movements and organized efforts for a very different way of human interaction and economic development, for much more just and liberating societies.

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Ted Glick has been a progressive activist and organizer since 1968. He is the author of two books, Burglar for Peace and 21st Century Revolution, published in 2020 and 2021 and both available at https://pmpress.org. More info can be found at https://tedglick.com.