I have provided a link to a NY Times article that laments that women have surpassed men in being employed/not underemployed. The writer's theory, is women have made strides in the workplace, due to gender liberation of the 1970s and access to higher education.
I argued in the comment section, (not as successfully as last Sunday's NY Times where I was the second highlighted comment with almost 100 recommendations - LOL) that this misses a central point; gender is less relevant today in a "flat world", where advanced economies only reward someone's creativity to add unique value (singular). This "economic Darwinism", as I called it, does not discriminate amongst gender and it is far from certain that it is correlated to years of education.
To the latter point, only if a person, can come out of high school, with all of their creativity in tact (our schools are based on the needs of the industrial revolution - conformity is emphasized over creativity) and never succumbed to conformity; can they ever, even hope, to succeed in the 21st century economy.
My wife is an English, Speech and Theater major with certified secondary education. I have enclosed another picture of her from two days ago in Malta. My 3rd oldest child, Morgan, is going off the University of Illinois on the same track. Both are gifted writers. Both are off the chart in creativity. My wife and all of my children are very creative and I would argue they have a better skill set than someone in manufacturing or someone who goes to 8 years of college to become a pharmacist (taking drug and camera orders at Wal-Mart), a general doctor (CVS) or an eye doctor (part time at Lenscrafters).
The cold reality, is that this deep recession may have had it's tipping point extended with debt, but it's roots are in the titanic shift of employment/economic sustainability. There are jobs that are not coming back. There are also jobs that leave a professional - who is not adding enough unique value - economic deflation with its inherent changes in life-style, consumer spending and stained legacy for their children.
This recession, is not just any recession. It is going to take at least a generation for us to work our way through it. Our education systems must change. Everything must change. But nothing can get better, until everyone wake's up, to the harsh facts of the new 21st century economic world. Even the economic survivors, that add unique value, will be negatively impacted by systemic unemployment with higher taxes and deflated assets - homes and businesses - with too much supply being chased with too few dollars.
- John Jazwiec
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