Nature is our brown rice

Why women are leading the change

Women are more prone to poverty, earn less then men and tend to be undervalued for their non-monetary contribution. I used to get really frustrated about these facts and sometimes I still do. But frankly, I got tired of feeling frustrated. I felt the need to stop talking. To do something. To create. To create is to feel power, this creative power is given to us by nature itself. It is not ruled by economics, nor by men.

So why are women leading the change we are seeing today?

I’d like to introduce a concept that helped me better understand; the price of privilege. In university one of my professors told me a story about an Indian village. In this village the boys, unlike the girls, were not expected to contribute to the work in the house. And while the girls were given brown rice, which was considered a lesser quality, the boys were given white rice. A few years down the line something remarkable happened. Among the boys there was a disproportionate occurrence of blindness. It turned out the boys were all suffering from a vitamin A deficiency. Brown rice is much richer in vitamin A so the girls were just fine.

Blindness comes with privilege

I like this example because the blindness associated with the white rice is so symbolic for the blindness…