[Lorianne]

Freedom, equality of opportunity, individual self determination is what creates an overall prosperous nation. Every single nation founded and run on those principles is prosperous. Every nation which doesn't, isn't.

It is not about "career women". It is about what our country (and most Western countries) is founded upon, the rights of the individual supercede the rights of the group, the clan, the tribe. This is in stark contrast to less prosperous nations who establish caste systems of various sorts (including but not limited to relagaing women to lower status restricting their liberty) and establish unequal laws and standards for their people.

[wardaddy]

So the US was not prosperous(relative to that time of reference) before women's sufferage?


Women were liberated by electricity and the washing machine more so than the vote.

Kosovo thanks to UN mandate now requires that 30 percent of their representatives be women....do you expect grand things there?

Japan was rather prosperous prior to women becoming "semi-equal". Japan is still fairly prosperous but with deflated equities markets and yet women there have nowhere near the freedom of access women here have.

I think women having more or less unimpeded economic access according to their talents and qualifications a good thing with some exceptions but if you look around you will find that this is primarily a western cultural identifier and that many of these countries were prosperous before the advent of women's rights or even the ascendancy of any minorities in general. Proserity gives way to more classically liberal thinking frequently.

It's just a matter of opinion...nothing to prove here. By all means you may believe the chicken came before the egg.