‘The future is female’ – it’s a slogan we’re seeing increasingly, on t-shirts and placards and social media feeds. And there are currently plenty of important and necessary debates about getting more women into the upper echelons of business: more women on boards of companies, in industries such as science and tech, talk of how to retain women in the workforce after they start having families and much more.

But should we be focusing on just having more women in the most powerful positions in the economy, or should we be looking at reforming the nature of the economy itself? After all, capitalism and masculinity are closely entwined (a subject for an upcoming episode), in some ways good, and some ways less good. Instead of pushing to have more women in the economy, should we be pushing for the economy to embody more feminine traits instead? And what does a more feminine workplace and economy look like?

Host: Nas aka Nastaran Tavakoli-Far

Guests: 

Eric Gade, trained historian and former intel analyst http://www.homoridiculus.com/

Jess Rimington, Visiting Scholar at Stanford University’s Global Projects Center http://www.jessrimington.org/

Related Links: 

The Gender Knot www.thegenderknot.com

MastrMe http://mastr.me/

Rob Reich interview with Freakonomics https://bit.ly/2BJoIgk

Music: Government Funded Weed by Black Ant (used under Creative Commons) Sourpatch by Glass Boy (used under Creative Commons)