Entropy had had its way with all of us and the world during the pandemic, unleashing more fears, chaos, fragmentation, destruction, and disorganization.
One sign of this is the relative increasing subjugation and control of women by men reappearing in the world and reduction of opportunities for jobs as many women retreat to the home and family fronts.
In North America, many women have been forced home to look after kids, home, provisioning, family health, and working spouses. Fortunately, some Western women can still work from home–one of the boons of the e-connected world.
But overall, there are fewer women employed in the work force and this is a retrograde state of affairs after much progress for women’s rights and their general upward mobility.
Elsewhere, in South Korea, for instance, where things had been improving for women before the pandemic, there have been increasing strictures and setbacks, signalling a patriarchal shift or revival.
Something which is also reflected in Islamic culture with its long historical patriarchal structure. In many other countries, too, we’ve also seen women’s rights to abortion cut back. The U.S., for instance, is turning its back on Roe v. Wade and some states have moved toward banning abortions or, at least, making them harder to get.
The feel of such changes cuts deep into the significant social progress women have made in many parts of the globe and signal a return to the unenlightened past when men mostly ruled and controlled the lives of women.
This trend is unfair, unjust, and is poorly-timed, dramatically limiting about half the world’s population, based on gender differences.
In short, the pandemic entropy has greatly and negatively changed the lives and living conditions of women. One gender, in the main, has been particularly hard-hit suddenly and the only, apparent default has been to the negative, limited and limiting past.