We are right to point out the well-deserved milestones and achievements of women on their journey toward gender equality. Over the past one hundred years we’ve seen women emerge into the workplace, into a space of financial independence, becoming enfranchised, and successfully leading some of the world’s most powerful nations and Fortune500 Companies. We’ve seen women become the breadwinner in 40% of American households, juggling the burden of motherhood and work like never before. We’ve seen women become the largest and most powerful voting bloc in America, enacting historic change to close and even reverse the gaps in education and health outcomes. But during this journey, one change in women’s behaviour has fallen beneath the radar, for it is far less popular than those listed above. Another swing of the pendulum, that has remained quietly unnoticed… And that is, the emergence of women’s sexual and physical abuse, and coercion, in a controversial theory known as own as ‘The Millennial Shift’. The theory suggests that over the last three generations, sexual aggression by women has increased, whilst men’s has decreased, to a point where they too, are approaching gender parity. And yet, amongst the much deserved whoops, cheers, and back slaps of women’s success, parity, and autonomy, the growing issue of sexual violence in lock step with such successes has not drawn anything like the same public awareness. Why not? Is this not part of ‘women’s choice’ too? Why I s today’s generation of women, who are more autonomous and empowered than any before them, any less likely to use that empowerment and autonomy for bad? Why has this behaviour not drawn any attention? Is it time we acknowledged women’s autonomy to do good, or bad, and the entire gamut of their emerging independence? So how much of women’s autonomy, do you recognise? Is it time we talked about The Millennial Shift? What do you think? ~ Studies Main Study Additional 01  Additional 02  Prof Don Dutton talk Images by Matt Reiter Oifcla, Getty, Amr Elmasry, Vitaly Otinov.

2024-07-16