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DiscussionHow would women's rights look like in a degrowth society?
This conversation is more for those who know about the concept of degrowth and the direction our environment and natural resource management is heading in (read: very shitty place to the point of societal collapse).
So obviously every society ever has been misogynistic towards women. I think the basis of all of this, is forcing women to reproduce and have kids they don't want, and forcing women, whether through rape or social pressure, to have kids is terrible on their bodies and needs and unwanted children who are only bred into existence due to obligation make for terrible lives, and more humans who take up resources and facilitate the destruction of the natural world. Luckily today, at least in certain societies, we have the choice, but can it be argued that this is due to technological advances leading to better lives? In the face of the need to degrowth to make sustainable societies worth raising kids in that won't be collapsed to due climate change, famine, drought, and a whole host of other natural disasters (all of which are the result of tipping points that there may be no returning from), there is a clear concern: technological advances protect knowledge and education needed to preserve women's rights, so what happens when our ways of gathering information are heavily reliant on complex technology? Without knowledge, we don't have power, we won't know how or what to advocate for, how to know what's best for us, whether in reproductive health or in what's simply true or not true about women (so like, think about this, just by how babies are made. Even people nowadays think that the woman simply "carries" a baby and it's not like all her body is devoted and rearranged to grow a baby with the woman's flesh and blood, and poor understanding of reproduction and biology lead to men-centric beliefs and thus, misogynist beliefs).
So if we go back to less complex societies, or rather, we will be forced to, what happens to women? Please humor me, even if you have read thus far and don't care about anything I'm saying, just consider a post-apocalyptic world where we go back to pre-industrial farming and production and the men magically aren't en masse evil beings who rape us and force us to have children and walk all over us like subhumans. Would we still have to have children against our will in order to work the farms?
I guess, what I'm asking is: is women's suffering inevitable?