solipsism: the price of freedom

Women in this country fought many years ago for the freedom we take for granted today. Western feminism, as the article states has not gone wrong, but has lead many women to the word of the day: solipsism. This means concerned with only your reality, or viewing your reality as the only reality. So, as we have become free(er), we have lost touch with those women around the world who do not experience the same freedom as we do, and this form of apathy exudes from us as we are ignorant or emotionally out of touch with the reality of the status of women in the world.The reality is that:

• Only 1% of the world's assets are in the name of women.
• Men in the Arab states have 3.5 times the purchasing power of their female counterparts.
• 70% of people in abject poverty-- living on less than $1 per day-- are women.
• Among the developed countries, in France only 9% of the workforce and in the Netherlands 20% of the workforce are female administrators and managers. 

  What will you do about this? What will I do about this?

  i think that it would be unrealistic to assume that the same feminist movement that occurred in the United States of America would also occur in developing nations, for no other reason, that it hasn't happened like that yet. Women in America, and Western countries had an interesting opportunity in the early 20th century and seized it. We mustn't try to replicate what was already done in history, but evaluate why it hasn't trickled over into the developing world and find a new solution. There is no doubt that change needs to occur, but turning a blind eye to it, forgetting where our fore(mothers) came from would seem counter-intuitive in light of the struggle in the West for gender equality in recent years, and even until now. W must let go of the subconscious solipsism that is in each one of us, and make choices to eradicate the gender inequality happening outside of our understood reality.

NY Times: Not the Child my Grandmother Wanted