Care work is still primarily done by women for free in families and for poverty wages in the market, and this is a major reason that worldwide women are the mass of the poor and the poorest of the poor.

...gender relationships, which are tough for people to deal with, are key to whether a society orients to domination or partnership in all its relations.

For as long as human beings are forced to live in a system that at every turn impedes the fulfillment of their basic human needs - not only for love but for creative and spiritual expression - they will try to compensate for this in other ways, including the compulsive acquisition of ever more material goods.

For Islamic fundamentalists male "honor" is equated with control over the women in a man's family - to the extent that killing a woman who makes her own sexual choices (like marrying without her father's consent) is considered honorable, rather than criminal.

war and the 'war of the sexes' are neither divinely nor biologically ordained.

To heal ourselves we also have to heal society.

If we are serious about breaking cycles of poverty, we have to change this (economy).