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A. Thank you for the excellent and thought-provoking question. I mentioned above how societal evolution is a complex system. As human-beings, we are predisposed to study most systems as if they were linear, that is to say mathematical. A linear system is the rotation of the earth, the distance of the moon and the ability to launch a rocket to land on the moon. A complex system is a human-being and being able to predict the choices that a human-being will make when you change his or her environment. You can’t predict it with any degree of certainty because people are complex and one person will choose a different path than another person, even when given the same parameters.

Therefore, we do not know with certainty what the world will be like in 50, 100 or 200 years from now. However, we can view trends and we can see where society has been, where it is today and where it is headed based on the trends that we see today. We know that society is evolving and that the patriarchal ways are passing away and that women are becoming empowered.