You were taught that the security of the state rests on power (increasing it, keeping it, and displaying it), but were you told that norms of equality bolster state security? What creates state security— power, or equality between females
and males? The answer may surprise you: both make a state more secure.

Those states that foster female and male equality through laws that are enforced are less likely to go to war. They are less likely to use force first when in conflict.