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[–] Paragone@lemmy.world -3 points 21 hours ago

Misogyny & the right: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2445637#abstract

Andrarchy/misogyny is THE bedrock prejudice, & all other racisms/classisms are secondary.


Due to the false-framing of the original-article, that it's local a problem, here are evidences of it being global:


< I asked an LLM to find me the one on women's rights vanishing in zionism >

It appears you are referring to a widely circulated 2023 opinion piece or reportage by Haaretz, a major Israeli newspaper, which discusses the decline of women's rights in Israel under the current political climate. While several articles touch on this theme, the most prominent one—often cited by international observers—is an opinion piece by Netta Ahituv titled "Women’s Rights Are Vanishing in the New Zionism" (or similar variations depending on the translation).

Key Arguments of the Article

The article argues that the rise of religious nationalist factions within the Israeli government has led to a systematic "vanishing" of women from public spaces and decision-making roles. Key points highlighted include:

  • Exclusion from Public Life: The piece documents a growing trend of gender segregation in public transportation, higher education, and military ceremonies, which the author views as a reversal of decades of progress (Helms, n.d.).
  • Political Underrepresentation: It points out that the 37th Israeli government initially featured significantly fewer women in ministerial positions compared to its predecessor, reflecting a shift in priorities where women's rights are no longer a central concern for the "New Zionism" (Helms, n.d.).
  • Impact of Judicial Reform: Many Israeli women's rights activists, as reported in Haaretz and The Times of Israel, have expressed fear that proposed judicial changes would strip away the Supreme Court's power to protect women against discriminatory laws passed by religious parties.
  • Intersection of Religion and State: The article suggests that because there is no formal separation of religion and state in Israel, the increased political power of ultra-Orthodox and Haredi parties directly translates to more restrictive rules for women (Helms, n.d.; Caplan, 2003).

Similar Coverage in Jewish/Israeli Media

If that specific article isn't the one you're looking for, the following publications frequently cover the same "vanishing rights" beat:

  • +972 Magazine: An independent, non-profit magazine run by a group of Israeli and Palestinian journalists. They often run critical essays on how Zionism and military occupation intersect to suppress both Jewish and Palestinian women's agency (Devendra, 2026; Grinberg & Aharoni, 2024).
  • The Times of Israel: While generally more centrist, they have extensively covered the "Women in Black" and "Tal'at" movements, which protest the erasure of women's voices in the national discourse (Devendra, 2026; Grinberg & Aharoni, 2024).

References

Caplan, K. (2003). The internal popular discourse of Israeli Haredi women. Archives de sciences sociales des religions, (123), 77–101. https://doi.org/10.4000/assr.1069 Cited by: 33

Devendra, N. (2026). Feminism of the besieged: The case of the Tal’at movement. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 29(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2026.2639511

Grinberg, O., & Aharoni, S. B. (2024). The human rights archival gap: Ethno-archiving the silencing of radical activism and Israel’s violence against Palestinian women. The International Journal of Human Rights, 29(2), 129–154. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2024.2383733 Cited by: 3

Helms, M. (n.d.). How does religion affect Jewish women’s rights in Israel? – Podcast. Israel's Divides. https://opentext.ku.edu/israelsdivides/chapter/womens-rights/


Christofascism's "biblical" bulls+cows "relationship" is what we, in our culture, are encountering.

Therefore we're more likely to be knowing it than the misogyny that other parts of the world, other cultures, are embodying..


Islamists .. anybody here remember when the Taliban put a bullet in Malala Yousafzai's face, because she was a girl who advocated for education-rights?

I do.

Afghanistan's reversion to the bulls+cows "relationship" has been as baldfaced as can be.

Apparently G-D was incompetent & wrong, to have put spectacular LivingPotential in the lives of girls+women among our planet, & they're MAKING G-D's mistake be corrected..


< the millions of missing women genocide >

The phenomenon you are referring to is known as the "Missing Women" crisis. It was first famously quantified by Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen in a landmark 1990 essay, using data from the decennial Indian Census and other international demographic benchmarks (Sen, 1990).

Key Data and Findings

The core finding of this research is that in parts of the world—most notably India and China—the ratio of women to men is significantly lower than in regions where women and men receive similar medical care and nutrition (Anderson & Ray, 2010).

  • The Original Estimate: In 1990, Sen estimated that more than 100 million women were "missing" worldwide (Sen, 1990). He calculated this by comparing the actual female-to-male ratio in these countries against the ratio found in developed nations (like those in Europe or North America), where the ratio is typically around 1.05 or 1.06 females for every male (Sen, 1990; Jha et al., 2011).
  • India’s Specific Figures: Using Indian Census data, Sen later calculated that approximately 37 million women were missing in India by the early 1990s (Sen, 1992). More recent analysis of the 2011 Census revealed that the "Child Sex Ratio" (ages 0–6) had dropped to an all-time low of 914 girls for every 1,000 boys, suggesting that the gap has continued to widen in younger generations despite overall increases in female life expectancy (John, 2011).
  • Drivers of the Deficit: Research indicates that the deficit is caused by a combination of factors:
  • Natality Inequality: The use of ultrasound for sex-selective abortion of female fetuses (Jha et al., 2006, 2011).
  • Mortality Inequality: Higher mortality rates for female children and adult women due to neglect in nutrition and healthcare (Anderson & Ray, 2010).

Trustworthy Resources

For accurate and academic-grade information, you can refer to these primary sources:

  • More Than 100 Million Women Are Missing: Amartya Sen’s original 1990 article in The New York Review of Books.
  • The Lancet: Trends in selective abortions of girls in India: A 2011 study by Prabhat Jha et al. that uses 1991–2011 Census data to track the millions of missing girls specifically from selective abortions (Jha et al., 2011).
  • The Age Distribution of Missing Women in India: A study by Anderson and Ray (2010) that breaks down how missing women in India are distributed across different age groups, showing that the issue persists throughout a woman's life, not just at birth.

References

Anderson, S., & Ray, D. (2010). Missing women: Age and disease. The Review of Economic Studies, 77(4), 1262–1300. https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdq019 Cited by: 116

Jha, P., Kesler, M. A., Kumar, R., Ram, F., Ram, U., Aleksandrowicz, L., Bassani, D. G., Chandra, S., & Banthia, J. K. (2011). Trends in selective abortions of girls in India: Analysis of nationally representative birth histories from 1990 to 2005 and census data from 1991 to 2011. The Lancet, 377(9781), 1921–1928. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(11)60649-1 Cited by: 426

Jha, P., Kumar, R., Vasa, P., Dhingra, N., Thiruchelvam, D., & Moineddin, R. (2006). Low male-to-female sex ratio of children born in India: National survey of 1.1 million households. The Lancet, 367(9506), 211–218. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(06)67930-0 Cited by: 625

John, M. E. (2011). Census 2011: Governing populations and the girl child. Economic and Political Weekly, 46(16), 10–12. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23018151 Cited by: 49

Sen, A. (1990). More than 100 million women are missing. The New York Review of Books, 37(20), 61–66.

Sen, A. (1992). Missing women. BMJ: British Medical Journal, 304(6827), 587–588. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.304.6827.587


I've ripped-out the bogo-links & that's about it.

See the forest, not just the near-trees.

This is a millenia-long genociding that's been going on, & so long as we ignore the totality-of-it, we're helping it perpetuate, through our ignoring.

That isn't a world-viable path/vector, now: we have to get upright if we are to be viable, through The Great Filter.

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