La prochaine liberation des femmes

so when you look at the history of women's evolution you see we've made enormous strides forward we have social equity sexual freedom equal rights and equality in the workplace but today at the beginning of the 21st century we find ourselves in new and unfamiliar circumstances juggling work and family belief in cynicism we no longer have a traditional role to play that we are bound by but i wonder how free we really are when you move from the secular world to the spiritual world we find that many of our religious traditions are slow to rectify their gender biases and still tend to relegate women to secondary roles as postmodern women we've abandoned these traditions in droves and many of us have yet to find a meaningful alternative path towards spiritual fulfillment what would true spiritual equality look like for women and how would such an equality affect our culture and our freedom it's the first decade of the 21st century for only 50 years women have had control over our bodies through birth control in ways that have never happened before have had access to political and economic power that has never existed before at the beginning of the of the 20th century women's lifespan we're 40 years less than they are now i mean we're living longer we have more options we have options options options options we can be whoever we want to be that has never happened before in history but all of who we are you know every aspect of our psyche has been programmed to sort of exist in another context it's like we've been shaped by hundreds and thousands of years of needing male protection in order to be able to survive we've been shaped by the fact that half of the human race could could do what they want with us because they were stronger than we are you know we've been shaped by a very deep fear of being out of putting ourselves out because it was a risk you know out was a risky place to be this is something that i've realized in my own life because i the more i cared about women and the more i cared about doing something for women and making a difference i knew i had to be out but i also realized that at a fundamental level i was terrified and i kept thinking you know how am i going to get the emotional strength and support and and the guts to put out what i care most deeply about because as as a woman i've learned how to how to hide that how to hold that back from life it doesn't mean you can't do good work it doesn't mean that i wasn't doing good work but the very deepest part of myself the part of myself that wants to scream for revolution the part of myself that says something actually has to happen and wants to convey that to other women i was afraid to really put that out and then i met andrew cohen he was pointing to something that no one in the women's movement no one in academia was pointing to andrew cohen is a spiritual teacher who has a radical vision for the next women's liberation for what is possible for women if we come together beyond ego now i'd come together with women a lot before i was involved in the national organization for women this incredible collaborative research group with carol gilligan but every group of women i'd been in despite how much we all cared about each other and cared about the work that we were doing there is some fundamental way that we were in conflict with each other something would go awry and there was backbiting and just pulling each other down actually no one allowed to really shine completely because everyone had to stay somewhat at the same level but what andrew was saying is if women can come together beyond that can transcend this aspect of woman's nature then something revolutionary could happen and i knew that was true i knew that was true because patriarchy is based on women's separation from each other and women's separation from men and men separation from women so if that plug was pulled a plug that now is inside us that's not something that's being enforced from outside but that is actually inside us is our psyche if that were were to be changed then something radical would happen it would really be a new women's liberation you