Women are non-creative

Women are non-creative is a major theme of many works featuring all-woman worlds. This theme often portrays a society run by women as static, moribund, with little innovation or creativity, stale, stable, unchanging, noncreative, non-adventurous.

These ideas are usually put forward as part of a sexist argument about the "necessity" of men. In some cases, however, women are happier this way, or society is depicted as arguably better off.

Examples in fiction include

• James Tiptree, Jr.'s "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?"

Counter-examples in fiction include:

• Joanna Russ' Whileaway
• Nicola Griffith's Ammonite

The idea is not uncommon outside of fiction. Examples:

• "Thankfully we are a patriarchal society, otherwise all progress would have stopped centuries ago." -- Chance - Atlanta, GA (Sent Thursday, December 13, 2007 6:08 PM), Comment on Cloned Cats That Glow?!, MSNBC 2007/12/13