...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.

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

For both Adam Smith and Karl Marx the essential work of caring for people, starting in early childhood, was "just women's work" - and in their minds not even classified as "productive work."

For most of recorded history, parental violence against children and men's violence against wives was explicitly or implicitly condoned. Those who had the power to prevent and/or punish this violence through religion, law, or custom, openly or tacitly approved it. .....The reason violence against women and children is finally out in the open is that activists have brought it to global attention.

As long as women and the "feminine" such as caring and caregiving are devalued, we cannot realistically expect more caring economic policies. Young people have a major role to play in creating a caring economics.

to change our realities, we also have to change our myths. As history amply demonstrates, myths and realities go hand in hand.

We urgently need an integrated progressive political agenda if we are to have foundations for a more equitable, sustainable, caring world.