#1 WE LOST TOUCH WITH OUR FEMININE GENIUS

Many of us adopted masculine traits in order to succeed in a market economy dominated by men. Over the course of three generations, slowly, subconsciously, we've internalized these traits as feminine power. I did. I have since learned that the essence of true feminine strength

– Kathryn Lukas-Damer

Women did not move into the public spaces of work, institutional life and politics and bring their particular feminine qualities and capabilities with them. They had to ‘fit into’ public life as it had been constructed over centuries, even millennia, by men. In this world, what women might have bought specifically was demeaned. Softness, the ability to empathize, the attentiveness to emotion: all these were seen as weaknesses that got in the way of action. So they were marginalized – often by women too.

– Indra Adnan