As to your points, I’d agree that a hard reset to 1700, or even 1900, on gender would do more harm than good and that we would need to be careful to create norms which don’t waste our human capital. Perhaps a natural solution would be class-based gender norms; upper class women have more to gain from academic education and could use surrogates to keep up a birth rate without committing career suicide, while lower class women would be happier without being forced into the workplace and would contribute to societal stability. That way we don’t have to worry about losing future Rosalind Franklins / Marie Curies without utterly fracturing our society to do it.
Putting aside the question of aptitude, this sounds likely to be dysgenic given that increasing educational attainment in women tends to decrease birthrate. Plus, “increased societal stability” in this case also amounts to decreased class mobility in cases of exceptional aptitude.
Putting aside the question of aptitude, this sounds likely to be dysgenic given that increasing educational attainment in women tends to decrease birthrate. Plus, “increased societal stability” in this case also amounts to decreased class mobility in cases of exceptional aptitude.