War on Women is No Mystery

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary in her March 11 speech to this year's Women in the World Summit said, "Why extremists always focus on women remains a mystery to me."

It shouldn't be.

Women have always represented the ultimate threat to men. That historically has been because females are the procreators and accounts for the age-old attempt of men to control and repress women. In modern times, however, women are at the threshhold of becoming the majority of this country's policy makers and influence brokers.

Here's how that potential plays out:

Right now, females, who comprise more than half of the U.S. population, number only 15.7% of corporate CEOs, 17% of U.S. Senators, 20.6% of members of the House of Representatives and 33.6% of full-time university and college professors.

Given the changing higher-education demographics, that will change--unless drastic measures are taken.

According to 2010 statistics, 60% of college/university graduates in the U.S. are female, as are 60% of masters degree students and 48% of doctoral students. Last fall, females made up 49.4% of first-year law school students. That's up from just 10% in 1970.

It has been projected that by 2016--that's just four years from now--women will receive:

• 64% of Associates degrees,
• 61% of Bachelor’s degrees,
• 63% of Master’s degrees,
• 58% of Doctoral degrees,
• 58% of Professional degrees

Enter the drastic measures to stop and even reverse that possibility.

A crusade of legislation is showing up in Congress and marching from state to state that restricts women's access to services and products, many of which are unique to females, such as abortion--which IS legal and constitutionally guaranteed, contraception, domestic-violence protection, economic equality, personal privacy, medical-procedure consent, healthcare equality, preventative and public healthcare, family planning and more.

That is nothing short of a war on women that is being waged by insecure paternalistic men to get females out of university classrooms and presidents' offices, out of corporate boardrooms, out of Congress--all of which these men believe should be male bastions--and back into their homes, where these Dark Ages men think women belong.

I'm way to conservative to think that government has any business sticking it's nose in those or any other personal aspects of women's lives.

Women who agree need to arm--and gird--themselves and fight back.