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Taking lessons for Gender Equality in Maldives Politics from Universal Declaration of Gender Interdependence in Balance for Good Government


A standard and universal definition of true and representative human government consistent with the natural balance is based of the two genders. When in the Course of Human Events, it becomes necessary for all Men and Women, the males and females who comprise both portions of the Family of Humankind, to spiritually evolve and uplift the Political Bonds which have connected them with each other, in order to assume among and throughout the Powers of the world the Mutual and Equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and Nature's God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Humankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Transformation:

All Human Beings, male and female, are created politically and spiritually equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, which because it is related to Harmony, is by definition a condition both Individual and Social; That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among People, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form or Practice of Government becomes or is understood to be Destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to, as the 1848 Declaration states, "refuse allegiance to" its definition, to redefine and thereby alter it, and to institute new Government, laying its functional and spiritual Principles and reorganizing it in such Form as to them shall seem most likely to Effect their Safety, Liberty, Happiness, and Harmony.

Human Life is created, nurtured, protected, provided for and sustained from generation to generation with united spirit, by the Presence of two Genders, Female and Male. Thus, Natural Human Life itself relies upon sustaining the Rights - Safety, Liberty, Happiness and Harmony of both the Genders of Human Nature, and All Human Beings, Male and Female. This is true for individuals of every Nation.

But these rights have not been achieved under current Practice of 'government', which often have never yet achieved even its stated or intended Form due to excision or of subsequent inattention to Gender. Male domination which are erroneously and unspiritually deemed "necessary", even though producing unsatisfactory, costly and counterproductive results, which go against every major world spiritual ethical tradition is the epitome of most government.

Such officialdoms do not in fact even represent their one gender. That is because they are composed of too few of the many men who fully both love and respect women, men who value and seek out the nurturing and kind talents which are predisposed in women due to natural and hormonal factors. Once the female gender has been excluded by law or kept at a limited and coopted token level because of de-facto and residual discriminations, these officialdoms inevitably degenerate periodically and cumulatively towards being officialed primarily by the more competitively dominating men, who may be replaced, escaped from, ministered to, organized into competing parties or overthrown by mostly monogender reformers or revolutionaries who intend to do better, but who nevertheless repeat the cycles of imbalance if the next government again excludes or limits one gender too far beneath its number in nature.

Forms of government that originated in the use of gender exclusion and discrimination as a way of protecting, by dividing men from women, inevitably result in dividing men from each other by inducing undemocratic hierarchy as mindless authoritarianism or corrupt power-brokering, exploitation and/or competitive nationalisms or regionalisms, and spiritually misleading both themselves and the world's people as a whole. In this pattern, governments here and there have become periodically and/or cumulatively more tyrannous, enslaving, exploitative, preoccupied with their own divinity over other human souls, sometimes threatening, terrorizing, imperially callous and alienated, and corrupted away from the as yet unrealized, True Power of Good Will toward All, and Peace. Wherever we live, we all remember the countless instances of one group of such official men or another "leading" progress based in exploitation, or "leading" aggression or defensively expensively preparing against such interference with the Safety and Happiness of People.

At this moment, the threats to Nature and All Humanity, including themselves, posed by predominantly male lead governments, which most often give office to males most dominant or willing to serve those males who are most dominating, has become Extreme.

The men and women are equally important and equally necessary to each other and to the World for political participation, civil liberty and presence in public decision-making and office, by virtue of their endowed complexly Symmetrical and Overlapping Humanity yet Mutually Complementary Gender differences in Human Nature. In every nation, this nature is of inherent humanity, made up of one or the others of two genders, both of which require equal present participation in decisions of national, multi-national and international self-governance, as well as locally. Therefore to recognize and define, as True and Legitimate local, state, party, national, only those offices where the Genders' presence in office is representative and/or lawfully and intentionally becoming representative of Nature, and purposely formed and instituted to reflect Natural Spiritual and Political Equality at or approaching 50-50. This is defined as at least near or above 37.5% as the minimum for each gender; which is derived from 75% of each gender in the naturally occurring approximate 50-50 of gender in humanity which is needed for life's balance of partnership and exists in the populations virtually everywhere. Gender representation that is more imbalanced than this, is not yet true and fully human enough to be called or defined as government. In addition, the full 50-50 is achievable and possible in a reliable way, and several nations have set up mechanisms to achieve results at or very near to this ideal, which will bring the greatest Blessing to the population.

Because Human Nature and Human Government reflect the same endowed Natural principles of equilibrium and balance which occur throughout the world those that have not evolved and reached this natural minimum level of balance, exist as a country of dicriminations and dominations, as dominant monogender-forced or devolved officialdoms but not yet governments, as dominant-maledominatements.

France, the Nordic nations and many other nations have shown, how a country can move from gender monoarchy, tokenism, malegovernment and male-dominated officialdom to become a real nation and true representative and human balanced government for both genders very rapidly. Legislation setting up the procedure for gender balanced confirmation or general election, will be a progress. Less developed nations like Maldives can move simultaneously and quickly and leapfrog to safer or better forms of industrial technology just as quickly as more developed nations, which may need to retool after taking a premature course. Change is not always gradual, and can occur in a chosen quantum leap of insight. When the whole group sees clearly the advantages of adopting a new method, is a natural step for human cognition and progress.

In fact, many nations, literate and spiritually evolved fully enough to see both the problem and opportunity, have already taken this quantum step, and have had political, Constitutional gender balance provisions for some time. The Constitution of Finland states as an active and affirmative value: "Equality of the sexes is promoted", the Constitution of Sweden undertakes to "bring about equality between men and women". The South African Constitution sets forth a Commission to actively "promote the respect for gender equality...and the attainment of gender equality." There are many more examples in the laws of other nations, such as Muslim dominated Pakistan now joined by Gender Parite in France, which sets up the reliable mechanism for 50-50. The idea of a gender balance provision for equality in the Constitutions of every nation is an idea whose time has come, and it is becoming clear that nations that do not include such provisions in their Constitutions are now behind their times, and their Constitutions are already anachronisms, devoid of attention to one of the central and most impactful aspects of natural humanity, in every nation, Gender.

Furthermore, election procedures must also be defined by a fully human standard of equilibrium and balance of natural Gender, as well. Therefore, party and/or candidate list offerings will be expected to reach an approximately 50-50 balance of Gender. Elections, candidate lists and political party offerings that do not meet this standard shall not be called election or elections procedures, but shall be referred to as malelections, maleparties, and maleballots, and election procedures that offer or produce a result that is not balanced by gender and is primarily of one gender shall be called unelections, not elections.

In addition, which country they have occurred, aspects of true and human democracy that were denied or removed by male domain governments and thus, without the explicit and democratic consent of all the governed are restored, and their removal illegitimate, and neither male nor female in any such domain need give further allegiance to any section of any maleconstitution that denies the basic human right of one person, one vote, and the human right of natural gender balance in representation. Mechanisms that deny one person, one vote, that remove the rights of referendum or initiative, and equal, fair access to publically licensed media, or that elevate a male gender or mostly male gender group to dominate, even in the decision to amend, in the decision-making wherever it is not a true and fully human government.

Hierarchy and disinclusion by gender promotes sustained, hierarchies of race, that underpinned dominance/oppression, and historical cruelty patterns, hateful, unloving and unspiritual attitudes, and economic gaps and exploitations both within nations and between and among nations. Gender balance in governments is a necessary prerequisite for harmonious relations within nation. Gender balance in political office will assist the collective willingness to apologize for, understand and forgive numerous instances of sustained cruelty, exploitation, and human indifference to trauma, within. Gender balance will allow humanity to both de-intensify and yet celebrate and be moved by different heritages, struggles, adventures and experiences. It will, as a positive compensation, let all humanity reap from and be fulfilled by the nevertheless considerable scientific progress and other achievements of the past period that occurred even despite these difficulties, sometimes emerging in a context of being stimulated by dominance especially since both women and men are receiving higher education. Gender balance will allow the whole community to appreciate, and reap what was so dearly, unevenly and so often unnecessarily, sacrificed for under male dminant governments.

Some ethnically oppressed males have been particularly disdainful of, exploitative or violent towards the rights and education of women, and children, of even their own, in part because the women and children became "propertyized" scapegoats for the males' own often repeated, cruel and severe oppression by dominant males. This has in turn, affected child-raising, and many children, of such background have been raised in settings in which the childhood and intergenerational emotional underpinnings of whole self-esteem, family stability, social bonding, loving concern for others both within and outside of one's immediate group, mutuality and self-expression, have been affected for both boys and girls, in the form of higher crime or intergroup violence, or extreme authoritarian, hostile or exploitive patterns in families or beyond, accompanied by female submission and victimization rates, especially in areas of economic oppression related to these groups. But these problems will be healed with gender balance. The rules of dominant male pregovernments will be more inclined to perceive fruitful advantages from respect, inclusion and affirmative action as necessary ethical nurturance rather than as a pointless drain or competition, in gender balanced governments, and will likely, themselves benefit enormously from the increased productive creativity, decreased social costs and spiritual fulfillment that derive from group diversity in gender balanced decision-making, within can truly enjoy wholeness.

But gender balanced governments, bear an affirmative obligation to become quickly and reliably reparative, by addressing birth, literacy and longevity rates associated with poverty and stress, so that every child can expect quality and longevity of life, and to redress social and economic inequities developed under dominant-male oppressions of the past, which devalued or undervalued labor based on both gender and race. Gender balanced government has an obligation to lead toward the economic and peaceful justice for every man, woman and child, and especially to quickly eliminate illiteracy, lack of education, poverty, and violence, often associated with oppression and self-perpetuating patterns of victimization based on dominant male governments. Governments that do not have or promote a coherent and inclusive plan to apologize for, repair, reconcile and forgive the injuries that arose under the pre-government period of dominant male leaderships, should be called residually racist, dominating or divided officialdoms, and residual pregovernments, but not ethical governments.

Because each individual is politically and spiritually equal, nations, should strive toward generally common human birth, literacy, health, representation and longevity rates of all persons regardless gender. Under usual circumstances, where a nation is composed of identifiable caste groups, a gender balanced representational 75% of each of such groups' percentage presence in the given national population should be monitored, where possible, as a definitional feedback or minimal standard of achieving political equality or representation. For example, an identifiable 10% of the national or local population should usually be able to identify its gender balanced presence in assemblies and ticket offerings and other official positions, of at least 7.5%, or, should be able to claim rightfully that the current government cannot call itself minimally representative government.

A fully gender balanced combination of representative government is necessary to sensitively assure the optimal combination of respected and protected safe sanctuary/homeland as well as easing of political and cultural relations and restoration of tolerance and sharing amidst gender-balanced diversity throughout the nation. In this gender balanced process, the sense of human continuity in both mingling and preservation of heritage and experience will not be lost, but preserved by politically and spiritually equal women and men everywhere who know that to be human means to respect each gender politically and spiritually.

Unlike the hormonal factors and brain physiological factors that affect decision-making in groups by gender across has not been shown to have as clear mental dimension in group decision-making beyond the diverse richness of wholeness and inclusion. Nature has arranged it so that only a difference of gender is necessary for continuity of life. Lack of gender balance in the ethics of decision-makingis not good. Under gender balanced government, the divisions of the groups of humanity will be sources of shared mutual appreciation, delight, and positive cultural, artistic and spiritual interest, not alienation, oppression, and antagonism. In a gender balanced future, no person, male or female, would need to fear.

The ultimate division and domination experienced by humanity under monogenderist and mostly monogenderist government was a cultural, social and psychological alienatation from a shared and common Human Nature, and the matter and process of Nature itself. Scientific exploration and discovery was too often rejected in dominant-male authoritarian misunderstanding of faith, or misused in a mode and mindset to perpetuate domination of own group, and so instead of reliably benefitting human and natural welfare, too often was misunderstood or misapplied to hurt or damage much of human life and the web of life. Gender imbalance in decision-making threatens the ultimate domination and destruction of humanity upon itself and the Nature that sustains Humanity, while gender balance in decision-making offers enormous, perhaps unlimited potential in Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness and Harmony.

All the people, female and male, of the world contributed their genes, their energy, their communication, their ideas, their inspiring love and spirit to the life of each generation and future generations. Gender balance in government requires, relies and assumes mutual concern of both women and men. It does not develop or encourage unrealizable male-pattern domination fantasies or resentful alienations and resignation to victimhood of a new monogenderism among the female gender. It does not perpetuate or normalize an anachronistic childish, ignorant or frightened attitude on the part of women. It does not leave the world deluded and endangered within the currently common overprotective yet inevitably exploitive attitude of the most dominant men and those who perpetuate their domination that has, until now, passed for government, in so many places. It requires effort and welcome by and on behalf of both genders. But it benefits them all and all their children, for untold generations to come. It has clearly benefitted the lands where it already exists, is being achieved and sought officially in many others and so Now, it is being declared the spiritually evolved and mature endowed Right and future of All.

Only with full gender balance in every government will there be inherently human gender, self-esteem equal to all, a full understanding and forgiveness of past sins and wounds, a healing, healed and healthy, prosperous, spiritually united future for both genders. This will be accompanied by quantum leap of human creativity and responsible use of genius science and ethical use of information and technology, that goes with becoming a more relationally attuned, ethical, educated and transcendentally Whole society, with shared human rights and mutual concern. Each person, male and female, has an endowed Universal Right to realize this potential and fulfill this Blessing.

All people to varying degrees, had to deal with corruption of politics, which accompanies the inability of many national political systems to accept women at their real worth. The yawning chasm between the stated principles and actual behavior of much of the political scene has been evidenced in many ways, from condescending indifference and contempt to outright hostility. Women sharing political power with all men in equality, is a spiritually evolved and mentally empowering and protective opportunity and Blessing; and a mutually concerned natural higher awareness and benefit. The equal presence of women in office of representative government is not a threat to the power of men, not even to dominant men, but a quantum enhancement of it.

Today, education and literacy are near 100% in many nations, more than 50% even in "poor" nations, and portable learning technology - radio, video, computer, is making collective human knowledge, and even the ability to read, easier to teach and share everywhere and rapidly. Not only national, but regional and international organization and friendship is more and more common, and daily possible. These are ongoing discoveries of human creativity, increasingly made by both female and male together, seeking power used to sustain not their home but all homes, to improve the lives of all rather than to eliminate or kill any, and looking toward the power already inherent in the delicate nature of things rather than blunt force dominant or exclusive power.

With human ideas our greatest resource, we live in a world of greater connection and stimulus to genius thought in both genders. Skills of the feminine, such as listening, empathic harmonization and "horizontal" or less hierarchical facilitation of communication, are becoming more clearly important to both the collective humanity and individual person, and clearly equally needed for decision-making as the "vertical" hierarchy, competition-to-stimulation, out-group exclusion or threat that seemed so clearly to "work best" under conditions of more primitive technology, necessary territoriality in consciousness, and scarcity.

Shared communication and thought-sharing is an inevitable democratic equalizer as well as a widespread introducer into the mainstream of relations and loving spiritual attitudes heretofore only routinely practical for females at "home", but now becoming important in the global context because we are more interconnected and less isolated. Pregnancy, child-focus and neighborhood preservation need no longer permanently isolate child-rearing mothers, or supportive and bonding young fathers, from the political global community, which is now not only easily hearable and visible, via radio or video, but interactively influenceable, via telephone, internet/computer, and fax as well. In ways once reserved for Kings, mothers can interact cognitively with each other, as well as work and government offices in their own and other nations quickly, by email and website, and know that the human life cycle can easily accommodate both time for parenting, for both genders, and time for public office service and ongoing understanding of political issues.

Interacting non-hierarchically with men more often about goals and decisions, women also are learning from men, to become more daring and assertive of their own values and abilities. This prepares highly intelligent yet nurturing and spiritually evolved, compassionate women for political and economic decision-making office, in a geopolitical context. Nurturing love can enter into contexts that previously brought together only the most aggressive males who motivated through more hierarchial means, and still produce high levels of performance and motivation, using a different yet complementary and equally powerful mechanism. The concern as to whether the female is "tough" enough for government office is answered by the reality that her presence in office anywhere and everywhere is making the interconnected world less "tough".

Therefore, more and more people, men and women, feel women's presence in government will stimulate a more moral, creative result on an interconnected community; a result that benefits everyone. But it should not be worried that technology disempowers men, or empowers women more than men. Technology empowers men to wisdom and longevity in a way never before available.

In a more mature technological time, working with women, in government as any context, gives men not less but more: more opportunity to model, and be socially rewarded for indispensable habits of action, honor, humor, nobility and masterful calm, when called for to keep progress moving, yet also enjoy a less stressful, more long-lived lifespan and greater listening skills, to see all others as people instead of just competitors or bosses, and to share and learn important skills and insights into the nature of their own and others feelings, especially fulfilling in deeper bonding with children, which likely will be related to great increases in longevity for men. This allows men in positions of responsibility to nevertheless rediscover a happier sportsmanliness in less desperate and hostile play and more often win-win outcomes, to engage in skill sharpening and mental creativity, compassion, wisdom and kindness, and areas of their own nature area that was previously encountered only ordained men of religion or geniuses in music and art. It gives them time for more creative thinking, so that they can continue to unlock new ways of accomplishing tasks, but have the moral judgement, assisted by the presence of enough women, to know what tasks are most important to the people, men, women and children, of their society and other societies.

The importance to women of gender balance in governmental decision-making is even more obvious. Women will not have to live in a second class citizenship, and their increased self-esteem will bring forth talents and wisdoms waiting and yearning to be expressed. They can better protect their families by helping bring forth legislation that protects the young and old by assisting the strong and healthy to balance the necessities of family and work, and as a result of the increased peace of mind, grow even more productive and creative in all fields of thought, bringing into full light and public service the typically hormonally-linked receptively aware, nurturing, and somewhat process-oriented wholistic aspects of their natures.

Refereces

The Declaration of Fulfillment of previous Declarations, for gender equity including the US Declaration of independence of 1776, the US Declaration of Sentiments of 1848, the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1946, as well as the wise gender clauses of Law and Constitutions of many countries

 

 

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