{"id":2013928,"date":"2023-08-28T03:14:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T07:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-if-our-ruling-class-has-womens-workforce-participation-and-gdp-all-wrong\/"},"modified":"2023-08-28T03:20:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T07:20:06","slug":"what-if-our-ruling-class-has-womens-workforce-participation-and-gdp-all-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-if-our-ruling-class-has-womens-workforce-participation-and-gdp-all-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"What if our ruling class misunderstands women&#8217;s workforce participation and GDP?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhat-if-our-ruling-class-has-womens-workforce-participation-and-gdp-all-wrong%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2013928&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>There was\u200b a strange\u2063 irony \u200cin\u200d The Wall Street Journal\u2019s\u200c coverage of India\u2019s low female\u200c workforce participation and China\u2019s economic and \u2062demographic collapse last weekend. The\u2062 economist types writing and editing the WSJ are pushing on India the very same communist-inspired economic\u2064 policies \u2063that have \u2064precipitated China\u2019s demographic\u200b and economic collapse.<\/p>\n<p>A lengthy investigative piece about India in the weekend WSJ print edition,\u2063 provocatively titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/india\/india-economy-women-work-labor-46bfb0f0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What\u2019s Holding \u2064Back India\u2019s Economic Ambitions?<\/a>,\u201d criticized the majority Hindu country because of its low female participation. It blamed its \u2063antiquated social mores for \u200blimiting the potential output of India\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-2127387249\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-8794842443a61a20f9048d63c1366fd9 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-8794842443a61a20f9048d63c1366fd9\"><\/div>\n<p>The message \u200cof the article was one that has been repeated often in the last year on\u200d NPR,\u2063 the Associated Press, the BBC, and other \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-invites-vladimir-putin-but-not-joe-biden-to-beijing-winter-olympics\/\" title=\"China Invites Vladimir Putin, but Not Joe Biden, to Beijing Winter Olympics\">corporate media sources<\/a>.\u2063 According to global elites who control these publications, there can be only one successful economic trajectory for all\u2063 countries, and it involves women going to work at rates similar to those\u200b of men.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany countries \u2063have followed a \u2063similar economic trajectory: As they develop, women increasingly enter the workforce, further fueling the country\u2019s upward climb. It happened \u200cin China, Japan and South Korea in the latter half of the 20th century\u2026.\u201d So the\u2063 WSJ article begins.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s sin is not to \u200chave followed this same path, according to Wall Street\u2019s elites.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Happy and \u200bFree to Choose Domesticity <\/h2>\n<p>The article laments how India\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-if-our-ruling-class-has-womens-workforce-participation-and-gdp-all-wrong\/\" title=\"What if our ruling class misunderstands women's workforce participation and GDP?\">female labor force participation\u200d rate<\/a> is presently only 24 percent, down from\u2064 31 percent in 2001 because of \u201ca \u200cdeeply conservative culture \u200cthat emphasizes a\u200d woman\u2019s place is\u200d at\u200b home.\u201d It\u200d argues that India\u200d is squandering \u2064the\u2064 opportunity to\u2064 lure Western companies that are looking\u2063 for \u201calternatives to China for manufacturing.\u201d If\u200c India \u2062added only 11 percentage points of women\u2019s workforce\u2063 participation, the \u200cauthors argue, its economy\u2063 would\u200c break the \u200c$4 trillion barrier, closing in\u200b on Germany and Japan! \u2064Alas, there has been no net job creation in\u2063 India over the last decade because Indian women prefer to be \u200bhomemakers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-015822f865f4ef22b8a3cf3c7236c050 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-015822f865f4ef22b8a3cf3c7236c050\"><\/div>\n<p>What the article did not emphasize is how entrenched\u2064 traditional \u2064social mores are among India\u2019s women themselves. According to India\u2019s National Sample Survey, \u2062of \u2063the tens of millions\u200d of women who are stay-at-home \u200dmothers, only 31 percent say they would\u200b take a \u200bjob if it were flexible\u200b enough to accommodate their roles \u200das homemakers. And this is despite the fact that the number of\u2063 Indian \u200bwomen \u200bwho complete secondary education has\u2062 dramatically risen\u2062 in the past two decades to over \u206480 percent. However much the WSJ writers and\u200c editors may \u2063want to chalk up the lack of female participation \u200cin the workforce to misogyny, they cannot deny \u2062that\u2063 it\u2064 reflects an entrenched social preference among Indian\u2062 women themselves to fulfill domestic roles.<\/p>\n<p>This\u2062 is something the WSJ writers \u200band editors know well.\u2064 But rather than \u2064address this as a historical\u2064 and \u2063cultural\u2062 fact, they choose to emulate the approach of communists \u200bfrom time immemorial. \u201cPut the women to\u200c work!\u201d they say.<\/p>\n<p>There is an \u2064eerie \u2062echo of Mao Tse Tung \u200din all this. Chairman Mao famously\u2062 would say, \u2064\u201cWomen hold up half the sky,\u201d to explain why women needed to work.\u200b This is not so different from the calls of globalists \u2064to increase\u200c women\u2019s participation to \u200dgrow\u200b GDP.\u00a0During\u2063 Mao\u2019s rule, 90 percent of \u2064Chinese \u200dwomen participated in the workforce. Today, \u2062China is \u2062still a \u200dworld beater, with over\u2062 71 percent \u200bfemale \u200dworkforce \u200dparticipation, according \u2062to the \u200bWorld Bank. The \u2062U.S. and the Euro area \u2063lag just behind with 67 percent \u2063and 69 percent female workforce participation, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest oddity of all is that no \u2064one asks about the effect of increased female workforce participation on overall fertility.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-047b2b5565b914cd05cde3446e58a359 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-047b2b5565b914cd05cde3446e58a359\"><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Surefire\u200d Way \u200bto\u200b Shrink Your Fertility Rate<\/h2>\n<p>A brief WSJ piece about \u200cChina, titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/china\/chinas-fertility-rate-dropped-sharply-study-shows-e97e647f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cChina\u2019s Fertility Rate Dropped Sharply, Study Shows,\u201d<\/a> shows how the country\u2019s population is\u2062 collapsing faster than anyone predicted. \u2063Last \u2064year, its fertility rate dropped to 1.09\u2063 percent, and there were \u2064fewer than 10 million births and more than\u2064 10 million deaths. Attempts to rebound the birth rates in the country in recent years have had no effect. Despite reciting this litany of woes, the \u200darticle does \u200dnot probe\u2064 the reasons for this dramatic and \u2064unprecedented situation, nor \u2062its connections to\u200b China\u2019s\u2064 past economic policies.<\/p>\n<p>A separate article, published in\u200b Monday\u2019s WSJ, addressed \u200dChina\u2019s economic\u200c collapse, recognizing\u2062 that \u2063demography is \u200da <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gil-gutknecht-give-america-an-agenda-worth-fighting-for\/\" title=\"Gil Gutknecht: Give America an Agenda Worth Fighting For\">large contributing factor<\/a>. \u2063The article \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/china\/china-economy-debt-slowdown-recession-622a3be4\">\u201cChina\u2019s 40-Year Boom Is Over. What Comes Next?\u201d<\/a> \u2014 documented \u2064how China\u2019s labor force has been declining since 2019 and is \u200dexpected \u2063to plummet rapidly in the next\u200d two decades, \u2062but nowhere did it acknowledge \u200cthe genesis \u200bof\u2062 China\u2019s unsustainable \u2063population trajectory.<\/p>\n<p>After achieving near 90 percent women\u2019s employment under Mao, \u200dand having \u200cbeen hailed as an economic miracle during three\u2064 decades of market liberalization since, China now has a plummeting fertility rate \u2063that is leading\u200d to an economic and demographic collapse. India, on the\u200b other hand, has a fertility rate that, although declining steadily, remains\u2063 stubbornly above replacement level. This, despite the \u2063best efforts \u2062of\u200c the \u200cU.S. government, the Indian\u200d government, and billionaire philanthropists that have saturated India\u2063 with sterilization and contraceptive programs.<\/p>\n<p>The economic output of India is\u2064 averaging over 7 percent GDP growth each \u200byear despite low female workforce participation. None of the leading economies\u2063 in the world, including China, Europe, and North America\u200c can boast such growth. Could India\u2019s male-female workforce\u200d distribution be a\u200b possible path to a better economic model of\u2064 sustainable economic growth in the long run? We may \u2064never \u200bknow if \u2062the\u200b globalists manage to \u200dimpose\u2064 their economic model on India. <\/p>\n<p>What we know\u200d in hindsight is that women\u2019s\u200d increased \u200dparticipation in the \u2064economy has had a direct correlation with lower fertility everywhere in the world, without exception. And it is a\u2064 correlation compounded by the two-income trap, whereby the price\u2063 of living increases exponentially\u200b and forces even\u200d women who want\u2064 to spend \u200dmore time \u200bbeing mothers into the labor force to merely survive. Sadly, this is a fact that politically correct economists are not willing to openly \u200cacknowledge\u200b for fear of being labeled misogynists.<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, economists just assume that female workforce participation is something good\u200b per se and sustainable in \u200bthe \u2064long run. And that the lack of \u200bfemale participation in the \u2063workforce is negative and unsustainable. But there is no reason given as\u200d to why this may be the case. In fact, the evidence\u200b from China, Japan, South Korea,\u2063 as well as Europe and America suggests that \u2063once countries enter a sub-replacement fertility\u2062 trend \u200dthere is no going back.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Less \u200bProductivity in the Long\u200b Run<\/h2>\n<p>What we know is that the world\u2019s economist class, the types that run international agencies, development banks,\u2064 and programs, and\u200b attend cocktail parties in Washington, D.C., and \u2062Brussels, want women to \u200bwork. The reason they reach this conclusion is that anarcho-capitalists, like their \u2063communist counterparts, only conceive of\u200d human beings as units\u2063 of production\u2064 in the economy. It is why the solutions they propose can \u200cnever be humane or sustainable. The greatest illustration of this is that the only available family-friendly fiscal and\u200b economic policies in the United States and other Western countries are \u2062ones that encourage women to work. Never are women encouraged to be homemakers.<\/p>\n<p>Just like Mao, today\u2019s\u200b leading economists are\u200b blinded by\u200c the GDP numbers game and fail to see the human \u2063drama\u200c that undergirds all human society. Because of this, they reach the \u200dsame exact conclusions as authoritarian \u200dregimes. More women\u2019s employment \u2062means more economic productivity; therefore it must be encouraged\u200d in \u200dthe case of capitalist systems, or forced in the case of \u200dcommunist \u200bsocieties. Both forms \u200bof female work participation, however, lead to\u200b low fertility, which \u200bmeans less economic\u200d productivity in the long run.<\/p>\n<p>The economist\u2019s solution to the diminishment of the economic \u2063pie because of low fertility is more female employment,\u200c which is what led to the drop in \u200cfertility in\u200b the first place \u2014 at which \u200bpoint one begins to think\u200b this is a Ponzi scheme to deplete \u2064the world of \u200dits most valuable resource:\u2064 its people.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-d9a586396f8daa1cddc993e90ccfff1a fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-d9a586396f8daa1cddc993e90ccfff1a\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in The Wall Street Journal highlighted the irony of their coverage. It pointed out that the economists at WSJ, who were discussing India&#8217;s low female workforce participation and China&#8217;s economic decline, were advocating for the same communist-inspired policies that led to China&#8217;s downfall. The article delved into this issue extensively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2350,"featured_media":2013929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2013928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2350"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2013929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}