[ExI] Women

[Mirco Romanato]

Il 28/12/2012 20:26, David Lubkin ha scritto:
> Spike wrote:
> 
>> From the point of view of the equilibrium society, any scheme we could
>> introduce to raise the status of their women is an example of
>> accelerating wildly in a random direction.
> 
> and Fred wrote:
> 
>> Having a full understanding of a situation might be the first step in
>> avoiding a project which has an undesired outcome.
> 
> As we here know, the response of a person, economy, or society
> to a given input is apt to not be what a naïve analysis suggests.
> I'm skeptical that the outcome will be precisely what we set out to
> achieve, however much we've researched and thought about the
> problem.
> 
> Experiments seem worthwhile. Perhaps starting with a smaller
> place, like Madagascar or Haiti, with fewer external influences.
> 
> Rather than the spontaneous order of my laptop suggestion,
> another direction is top-down, through a benevolent despot. I'm
> thinking of all the ways Atatürk changed Turkey in about 15-20
> years, some of which markedly improved the status of women.

Only in cities, for few women, and it, apparently, don't lasted more
than a decades at best.

Mirco