Kris Beuret, director of SRA and co-author of the report, notes: "Many more women are economically equal to men, socially independent and professionally employed compared with times past.
It was the post-second world war alliance of the sage and the economically egalitarian worker that brought the real global recovery, not the gentleman: by creating welfare states, giving more power to labour and controlling merchants – most importantly in international finance – governments succeeded in investing in growth while creating a more economically and socially equal society.
To overcome such disparities and engage all their citizens in the project of democracy, Scandinavians worked hard to create forms of government and social policies that made people ever more socially and economically equal.
It seems that the more economically successful the city, the more equal its population.
Traditionally, class figured less in politics in America than in most other Western countries, supposedly because the United States, though more economically unequal, and rougher in tone, was more socially equal, more diverse, more democratic, and better at giving ordinary people the opportunity to rise.
India is a patriarchal society where women are now becoming economically equal with men, showing new independence in their careers and more liberated private lives, especially in urban areas.
"It makes our society healthier, more economically proficient, and in all indicators of human wealth and health, women's equal representation makes a huge difference in the whole community, the whole nation, and the whole world".
The U.S. becoming a more economically static society is, to be sure, an unwelcome finding, particularly since the concept of equal opportunity has been such a crucial part of American ideology.
Today they are more economically independent.
