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post-truth/women issues (Post truths - important concepts (fake…

- - - - absolute power corrupts
      - misuse (e.g. false accusations of sexual harassment, children's custody aft divorce)
      - taken many roles for granted (domestic roles are now mostly done by overseas helpers--strangers are bringing up their children)
        
        have yet to catch up/gotten used to the idea of empowerment
        
        equality is not there yet-tend to be selfish
        
        choose not to get married or have kids, put career first -- deviating away from traditional roles
        
        some men don't want to get married to someone who is more accomplished
      - even if women do abuse, it is only because it is still at the teething stages of women's rights -- only been 200 years of women rights, anything that has been implemented takes time for people to accustom to it "Rome wasn't built in a day"-- takes time to educate
      - room for improvement: honour killings - india (woman whipped 100 times in public) too much influence from religion
    - - encourage women to speak up for rights
      - equal opportunities as men
      - "so when the graduate man does not want to marry a graduate woman, I tell him he's a fool, stupid." - LKY : for future kids
        
        helped women have equal partnership with their other half, policies for education have always been gender neutral -- more help for females here compared to other countries
        
        incentives to help : without taking women empowerment away 1) paternity leave 2) cash benefits, subsidies for children (baby bonus)
      - medical school - more seats
      - why are women needed in the workforce - empathy (feminine attributes)
      - women in the workforce: singapore: 48.2% of workforce are women
      - according to the International Monetary Fund, if women worked at the same level as men, a country's GDP could grow by 34 percent.
    - - 1800s
      - capable and equal partner in the household