Fighting Terrorism by Empowering Woman

Aristophanes in Lysistrata wrote a wonderful satire with a gem of truth: to prevent war, the women withhold sex. George Gilder, before he wrote the Bible of the Reagan Revolution: Wealth and Poverty, wrote a screed against feminism called Social Suicide which, although much vilified and satirized, also contains a germ of truth: through marriage, young and restless men are made to provide for the future. But what about the woman?

At a Commonwealth Club session at Stanford, an off-handed suggestion was made by one of a group of panelists while discussing the role of the UN in the war on terrorism, that may contain an amazing insight into winning the hearts and minds of the people trapped in the broken nations that spawn terrorism: empower the woman to break the back of support for terrorism. Despite what Gilder argued, it appears worldwide that the empowerment of woman - education, employment, enfranchisement and entrepreneurialism - is a major force for lifting broken nations out of a cycle of poverty and hate. The Grameen Bank in India, and others like it, have found that giving microcredit to the poor, especially to woman, has a remarkable impact.

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[Elise]

It would be interesting to see statistics correlating a woman's economic power in a country's society with the level of violent crime by men in the same country.
Interesting note on Lysistrata, the play that depicted women withholding sex did nothing to end the Peloponesion wars. Given that sex tends to have a mellowing effect on men, perhaps the alternative strategy would work - request sex so often that the men don't have time to fight and no desire to either!

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