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One Percent Better 045 | Separate but Equal: How Power Created the Gender Divide


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In this episode of One Percent Better, the conversation digs into one of the most uncomfortable realities shaping modern relationships and society: the gender divide isn’t accidental — it was built through power, hierarchy, and control.

What begins as a discussion about communication and misunderstanding between men and women quickly expands into a deeper examination of how systems — religion, culture, capitalism, and tradition — have reinforced separation while labeling it “balance” or “order.”

The group unpacks how power has historically determined:

  • who leads and who follows
  • who provides and who sacrifices
  • who is protected and who is blamed
  • and who is expected to carry emotional, physical, and moral responsibility

Rather than framing men vs. women as enemies, the episode challenges the structures that benefit from division — exposing how hierarchy thrives when accountability is uneven and empathy is conditional.

Throughout the conversation, they explore:

  • How religion and tradition are often used to justify gender roles
  • Why “separate but equal” thinking still shapes expectations today
  • The difference between partnership and power
  • How responsibility has been unevenly assigned across genders
  • Why division feels normal when it’s inherited
  • And what happens when people start questioning the systems they were taught not to

This episode isn’t about choosing sides.

It’s about understanding how we got here — and why healing the divide requires more honesty than comfort.



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