Are Women The World's Last Untapped Natural Resource?

Question

This article http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/62 explores the argument that women are the worlds most untapped resource because in most parts of the world (outside of Western nations) Women simply aren't allowed the same liberties men are, especially when it comes to work. What do you think? Could Women be the World's most untapped resource?

Answer 1

No wonder that this world has been working at half of it's potential so far.This world can be a much better,safer and caring place with women fully involved like men in the worldly affairs.

Answer 2

Yes. Economic studies prove that the more equality the women of a country have, the greater that country's economic prosperity.

The countries where women have the fewest rights are also, not coincidentally, the poorest, with the possible exception of Saudi Arabia, which is a country swimming on a sea of oil.

Answer 3

Yes; I completely agree with the article.

Answer 4

I would say  Antarctica is the worlds last untapped natural resource.

Answer 5

People are not 'natural resources'; we consume more than what we can give, male or female.

To use this analogy however, to say that women are an 'untapped resource' is to say that women do nothing, or at least less than men; the kind of comment that would bring feminists and extreme feminists together for a brief moment.

Answer 6

They've been repressed for so long that tapping that resourse may be more like opening a can of worms.

Heck, they've been wanting freedom for so long that once they get it they may not know what to do with it, and might run back home and hide, or run back home and kill off their husbands.

All they've ever known is working for free for the family, but

they are so many years away from getting real rights that why would they even work now, when all the jobs will give them lower pay, just like in the 50's in America. Okay, well, it is still going on, even though it is illegal.

I can only imagine what those women will have to say once they get the freedom to do it. It should be amusing at the least.

Answer 7

this should be good...

edit: Laim hinted at my apprehension to agree with this, I don't think women should be viewed as a resource because this negates any work they do that goes unnoticed... "untapped" to me would mean we are gaining 100%, this doenst match up for me. But on the other hand, women should be liberalted in these countries by all means... hum, I'm hung up on this one.