Feminism is Self-Preservation

I want more women in science because I want better science.
When you realize that drug scientists, mostly men, haven’t been testing medicines on females, rat or human, you know the best drugs aren’t being invented.
If women were in the labs, they would be asking this question, “how does that effect women? how does that interact with estrogen and progesterone?”
And I’d have access to safer, more effective medical care. It’s a matter of self-preservation really.
The same applies to government.
If half of each party were women – we’d have a different country. One that asks fundamentally basic questions like, “How will this law affect women, children and families?”
And business. Man oh man. Last year at The Women’s Conference I heard Warren Buffet say the only hope he has for business is that women are essentially an untapped resource and The Market should be making the very most of it.
And to validate my stance on this, I’ll point out an Op-Ed piece in The New York Times, Mistresses of the Universe, which submits that none of this economic crisis would be happening if women had been in the boardrooms of banks.
The author, a man named Nicholas D. Kristof reports that the most interesting discussions at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this year was “whether we would be in the same mess today if Lehman Brothers had been Lehman Sisters. The consensus (and this is among the dead white men who parade annually at Davos) is that the optimal bank would have been Lehman Brothers and Sisters.”

The goal was not to become men, take the place of men, displace men’s value as providers.
The goal was to get men to see women’s inherent value in the unique perspective women bring to the table.
For the good of all of us.
For better medicine, better science, better legislation, and a better economy.
Women are willing and capable. But, unlike many men, many mothers aren’t willing to sacrifice the good of the family for the good of an industry or even the collective world. That’s part of our unique charm.
Thank goodness.
Save the world. Save the economy. Invite the women back. Lure us with good, family-friendly employment policy.