Compassionate Economics with Riane Eisler, Ph.D.

MP3 Download What if we brought a more nurturing attitude to our nation's economic policy? What if we placed the same value on child care and health care as we do on prisons and warfare? Riane Eisler, renowned author of The Chalice and the Blade (HarperSanFrancisco 1988), draws on her visionary work on family, feminine leadership, and patriarchy to create solutions to the economic woes facing our nation and our world. She explains that the problem is an ongoing gender bias that exists under the radar, even into the twenty-first century. Even with a woman knocking on the door of the Presidency, our society - and our government - still views women, and the nurturing qualities of the feminine, as inferior. The result is a politics of scarcity, and a growing population of families living in poverty. Ms. Eisler explains, "As long as we don't make the invisible visible, we will continue to see this economic double standard at work, and policy makers will continue to tell us that we always ha