Stories by Riane Eisler
Riane Eisler is the author of The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics and The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future, and President of the Center for Partnership Studies.
Why is it that we get so outraged over war but look the other way when women and girls are beaten and murdered in the name of tradition?
Posted on Sep 6, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Until people (including progressives) stop thinking of "women's issues" secondary, the U.S. will continue on its path of poverty and war.
Posted on Jul 11, 2008, Source: The Wip
It's time to admit that the subordination of women perpetuates the very conditions of repression and violence liberals abhor.
Posted on Sep 25, 2007, Source: AlterNet
The failure by the current administration and its congressional allies to care for America's children gives progressives the opportunity to reclaim an area they've tragically neglected.
Posted on Sep 13, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Surely leaky pipes aren't more important than our children. Yet, in America, most plumbers make five times what caregivers do. Author Riane Eisler shows how our economic system, rooted in gender inequality, is failing us. An excerpt from her latest book follows.
Posted on Jun 27, 2007, Source: AlterNet
This Mother's Day let's give mothers what they really need: a more secure old age.
Posted on May 11, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Seventy percent of those living in absolute poverty in our world -- that is starving or on the edge of starvation -- are female. Not only that, in our wealthy United States, women and children are the mass of the poor and the poorest of the poor.
Posted on Apr 19, 2007, Source: AlterNet