Gender Equality is about Making Things Better

If we are going to make society better for everyone, it must be better for all not just a select few in the name of equality. W. Edwards Deming, the great quality management guru explained, “Defend your rights, you lose.” His point was that changes cannot be about just individuals doing better but about helping the whole system function better. When the system work better, everyone benefits.

Another way to say this is I how I have documented  Prevention Can’t Work and Problems are Irrelevant and Fixing Problems is Isufficient, Ineffective, & Inefficient because eliminating problems does not mean we get what we want. To get what we want, as is made clear with the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, we must cause it to happen. To cause desired outcomes we must move beyond problems to a focus on improvement for all.

Michael Kimmel’s TED presentation provides a great example of this thinking with, “Why gender equality is good for everyone — men included“.  Although his presentation seems to be about women’s rights, really it is about a better way so everyone and everything benefits. In the presentation he uses data to describe actions taken to create a better world also lead to an end of inequality. This of course is how to Practice Paneugenesis by generating comprehensive improvements by creating interactions so everyone and everything benefits. Enjoy:

I look forward hearing about how you make the world better as it also eliminates or makes irrelevant things that decrease our quality of life.