It's a given. Women are not equal to men when it comes to most societal arenas in our world. We have had multiple feminist waves of change and recent data shows that, while we have made some progress, our bodies, job advancement and choices, our compensation, our time and relationships, and our roles are still defined by men. No amount of data, fighting for policy changes or laws, protests or movements have resulted in significant increases in women's engagement or leadership.
Thousands of books have been written on our oppression and mounds of data exist to prove it. Currently, Woman can catalyze change from within grass roots community organizing to powerful positions of leadership. Yet, leadership and change by Woman needs to occur at a faster pace to effectively address the predicament in which humanity finds itself, and to make our world a more peaceful, safe, and loving place.
Why is this?
For 5000 years patriarchy as a culture and structural system has been entrenched and seeded into everything created in our world. Women have unconsciously adopted men's ways to get ahead and stay safe within the system. Women cannot change our world using the mindset of patriarchy. Many women have lost the knowledge of from where their power sources. Our elder women and Priestesses in ancient and Matriarchal societies embodied this power and used it to maintain peace, equity, prosperity and love in communities. In fact, when asked, many women do not know where their innate power sources from. Organized male dominated religion abducted the Soul into its purview and disempowered women of the fire that incites and demands change. Women were demonized and led to believe they were the reason for the fall of our species.
As American women, we spend our time trying to maintain the small bit of ground we have gained in the last 100 years. Compared to other women in the world most of us are just happy to have gained some ground. But this is not enough and we cannot settle.
When male leadership changes, laws that protect us are often undone. We fight again and again. Never has Woman (not patriarchal indoctrinated woman) but Soul-fired Woman tried to change the system strategically as men have done for hundreds of years.
When countries are formed, powerful men come together in a room to Vision the change, set the agenda, and move into action. The same strategy applies to the UN, NATO and most large corporations. There is an intentional science and process around instigating and embedding large-scale change and men created it and harness it every day.
It is time for Woman to learn this process, infuse it with feminine wisdom, and implement it on an unprecedented scale. Almost everyone that is awake knows our world is crashing down around us. There are so many issues, but there is no systemic prioritization of them or unified view of how to address them so that all life can thrive. Woman is the protectress of life, the force of nature that gives birth to new life and, as women's sciences are showing, we are the more advanced being of our species. And yes, this is a strong statement. But look into the science and make your own determination. The human predicament we find ourselves in today with mass inequality, pandemics, wars, poverty, loss of a sense of integrity and goodness is begging for Woman to step in and have her say and HER way.
It's time to shout this from the mountaintops and not be afraid of the reaction or aftermath. This is hard for many women. Research shows that finding authentic voice and being heard is something most women, even ones at the top of the most powerful organizations, fight to maintain everyday. There are many supportive men standing behind us. Time is of the essence and woman must mobilize to make change happen.
The book Woman 2.0 will enable this historic change. Drawing on research and from interviews with leading Soul-fired female leaders (and a few supportive men) from the major realms of life on our planet, from past and current matriarchal cultures, ancient and indigenous women's initiations and ways, patriarchal and feminist studies, and the latest in women's sciences and the science of social transformation, the book will leave readers inspired to strip off patriarchal programming, become Woman and unify, envision, create, lead and defend social change with an unprecedented passion.
Woman will light the torch of hope that will create a truly "civilized society" or possibly even a new epoch in human history.
