A person who wishes to influence the decisions of governments, organisations and companies must therefore learn to speak in numbers. Experts do their best to translate even ideas such as ‘poverty’, ‘happiness’ and ‘honesty’ into numbers (‘the poverty line’, ‘subjective well-being levels’, ‘credit rating’). Entire fields of knowledge, such as physic

More recently, Meg Henderson and Anthea Taylor discussed the “neoliberalization” of self-help (considered further below).41 In this iteration the feminist ideals of the 1980s and 1990s are transformed with even greater individualism and more emphasis on producing subjects “better adjusted to neoliberalism.” They chart how a focus on feminist consci

Nesse momento, ainda se mantinha uma representação singular de “homem” e de “mulher”. Essas representações ligavam as mulheres às ideias de bondade, cuidado, maternidade, domesticidade, e, por outro lado, homens à ideia de trabalho, produtividade, embrutecimento, frieza emocional.

As recently as the 1980s, the idea of “emotional intelligence” was not taken seriously, particularly by men; today, most professions regard it as important as any scholastic achievement. In a hundred years, qualitative intelligence might be unilaterally prioritized over quantitative aptitude.