2. When the men have all the rights and privileges in the society, but the women do have a lot of rights and privileges of their own, there comes some kind of the demographic balance in the society. The population grows slowly and the period of the demographic cycle extends to near infinity. This state of affairs was first researched by T. Maltus. Who didn't believe in the ability of the technology progress to provide sufficient increase of food for the growing population. However, this problem may be easily solved in the first world, at least. All too easily, alas...
