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(10-27-2012 01:55 PM)Therapsid Wrote:  

Not really. GDP growth rates in the post-war period up until around 1970 were significantly faster than post-1970.

The 90's were an exception. But the 90's boom was propelled in part by the integration of computers and the Internet into the workplace. Silicon Valley was and to some extent still is dominated by men.

My opinion is that women entering the workforce can, temporarily, boost economic growth if they're actually doing productive work, such as in factory assembly lines. American women obviously helped the country during World War II and Asian women have helped China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, etc. to develop by working in factories. The problem is that, in the long run, more women working outside the home ultimately contributes to a decline in birth rates.

Also, it seems to me that American women entered the workforce in numbers at precisely the time deindustrialization got under way. If they were providing cheap labor making electronics like in China, American women could help the economy. Instead, they're pushing paper in corporate and government bureaucracies and getting promoted on account of equal opportunity policies.

The 70's were a terrible era for the economy and the economy improved plenty since then.

Is it a coincidence that all the best economies in this world have a problem with feminism?