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Women and men as co-authors of a shared world.
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Every rule carries a picture of the person it was made for: their body, their time, their abilities, their duties and their path through life.
Synarchat is a mature model of shared governance in which women and men hold responsibility together for the laws, institutions and decisions a society lives by, keeping their differences and carrying equal weight in how decisions are made. Synarchat begins by recognizing the lives of women and of men as equally valuable foundations of how a society is organized.
Read Philosophy of WomafreesmThrough its rules, a society decides whose work has value, whose health deserves attention, whose experience becomes knowledge and who holds the right to make decisions. Synarchat gives women and men the chance to decide together how the shared world is arranged and to take responsibility for what it becomes.
Between being able to voice an opinion and being able to shape how life is arranged lies a distance measured in power. It shrinks when women's experience takes part in framing the question, choosing the solution, allocating resources and assessing the consequences.
For a woman, this is the right to decide what must be taken into account in a law, a medical protocol, a work schedule, a technology or an economic model.
Her body, her age, her professional ambitions, her care for the people close to her and her life transitions get a place among the starting conditions of a decision. With that comes the ability to check the result and to get mistakes corrected.
Synarchat ties this participation to responsibility. Whoever makes a decision must see whose life it will affect, what opportunities it will create, what burden it will distribute and who will correct the consequences. Shared responsibility takes concrete form through the powers held by people and institutions.
The maturity of this model shows in the ability to keep a common future in view while staying attentive to differences. Women have different life paths, interests and circumstances. Men, too, bring different experience. Shared governance needs a space in which these differences can be represented and can shape the decision.
Equal Consideration sets a requirement for the quality of a decision: the real parameters of human life must be part of how it is designed. Synarchat shows who takes part in that design and how taking part is joined to responsibility.
Equal Consideration makes women's reality a required part of the calculation. Synarchat secures for women the role of co-authors of the rules.
Equal weight of experience shows in the ability to influence the agenda, present evidence, take part in choosing a decision and assess its consequences. The specific ways of representation, decision-making and oversight need to be set out in the rules of the institutions concerned. Through these mechanisms, a philosophical principle gains force in society.
Read About Equal ConsiderationImagine a society designing its rules for supporting a family after a child is born. At the center of the decision is the whole situation: the woman's recovery, the father's share of care, the family's income, access to help, the return to work and future pension rights.
A decision is assessed through the whole situation rather than a single outcome. The woman's recovery, the father's share of care, the family's income, access to help, the return to work and future pension rights all become part of the same picture.
This approach requires seeing how health, time, money and care are connected. A father's ability to be part of his child's life depends on his working conditions. A mother's ability to recover and continue her working life depends on shared care, access to services and the family's financial stability.
In the logic of Synarchat, women and men take part in writing these rules, and the consequences are weighed for each parent and for the child. The family's actual circumstances are part of the design, and responsibility for the result is shared among those who make the decisions and hold the means to carry them out.
Power has consequences that reach far beyond the document that was adopted. A decision about working hours changes a family's life. A medical protocol affects years of health. An economic model determines whose work gets paid and whose care society counts on for free.
In Synarchat, strength means the ability to hold the whole in view, see consequences, account for differences and make decisions that preserve human dignity. Such strength joins influence with attention, independence with interdependence, and the right to decide with the readiness to answer for the result.
Ten foundations, set out in the doctrine of Womafreesm, define the moral
and practical conditions of shared governance.
Every person has worth of their own. A decision must take into account a person's safety, freedom, bodily integrity and ability to take part in their own life. Dignity is the measure of what is acceptable in how a person is treated.
The real parameters of life enter a decision from the moment it is created. Body, age, care, health, social circumstances and level of risk become part of the starting conditions by which the quality of a system is judged.
Human independence exists within relationships. Health, work, care, education and safety are sustained by the efforts of many people. A mature decision recognizes this interdependence and accounts for how benefits and burdens are shared among those involved.
Realizing rights requires clear duties for those who must secure them. The power to make decisions comes with the duty to explain their grounds, account for their consequences and correct mistakes.
Every generation has the power to shape the living conditions of the next. That power requires weighing long-term consequences: which opportunities, limits, obligations and ways of relating to one another we pass on.
Change is built through research, public dialogue, legal action and institutional procedure. The dignity of everyone involved matters in cooperation and in conflict alike.
Every person keeps the right to their own convictions, faith and worldview. Joint action rests on respect for that freedom and on shared responsibility for the consequences of decisions.
A serious intention shows in the readiness to test one's own conclusions. Data, methods, limitations and results must be open to professional review. New knowledge becomes a reason to refine an earlier decision.
Women's lives have value of their own, as a source of knowledge and as part of society. This experience takes part in defining problems, creating knowledge and choosing the decisions the future depends on.
Women and men both take part in shaping the shared world. Each person's responsibility is matched to their powers, their decisions and their ability to influence the result.
The WLCE Index turns the foundations of Synarchat into a framework for evidence, assessment and accountability.
Explore WLCE IndexThe maturity of a social order shows in its ability to join the qualities necessary for life. Structure, sensitivity, action, conscience, strength and care belong to women and men alike. In Synarchat, they are linked requirements for every decision.
Structure makes action consistent and understandable. Sensitivity keeps the connection with the person whose life passes through that structure. Together they make it possible to build stable rules and to notice when a rule needs revisiting.
Action turns intention into change. Understanding the consequences widens the horizon of responsibility: who gains an opportunity, who takes on the burden, what changes in a year and what is left to the next generation.
Law sets out rights, duties and procedures. Conscience holds on to the moral question of what happens to a person when they are applied. Together they make it possible to judge both the legality of a decision and its human consequences.
Strength makes it possible to protect, to create and to carry decisions through. Care directs that ability toward preserving life and dignity. Joined this way, care gains resources and influence, and strength takes responsibility for those it affects.
The ability to set the conditions of other people's lives requires accountability. The greater the power, the deeper the duty to understand the consequences, including those that show up only later, explain the choice and make sure mistakes are corrected.
An economic calculation becomes more complete when it counts a person's time, health, care, recovery and long-term opportunities. Behind every indicator are years of life, divided between work, loved ones and one's own needs.
Women need Synarchat because it restores equal institutional weight to their reality. For a woman, Synarchat opens the way to taking part in shaping the conditions of her own life. Her experience gains weight where the rules of work, medical care, public participation and the distribution of resources are set.
A woman gains the ability to influence the very idea of what is normal: which life path counts as complete, which circumstances are accounted for in advance, which work is considered valuable and what society commits to protecting.
This shift changes a woman's relationship with the future. She becomes one of its designers, able to join her personal knowledge of life with public action.
Men need Synarchat because it frees them from a model of strength built on suppressed feelings, control, emotional isolation and mandatory toughness. For a man, Synarchat widens the space of human maturity. Strength can show in the ability to care, to accept help, to be emotionally present, to share responsibility and to stay close to the people he loves.
Fatherhood, attachment, vulnerability, creating and taking part in another person's life gain full value in society. Conditions of work, family life and governance can support this fullness.
Synarchat describes a mature architecture in which being human comes before the gender script. Co-authoring the world opens the way to relationships in which influence goes together with trust, and responsibility becomes a conscious part of shared life.
Today, Synarchat exists as a philosophical model and a direction of development for Womafreesm. The organization is building research, legal, cultural and institutional tools through which women's experience will be able to influence public decisions.
Eight links connect this work. Each step needs its own method, its own evidence and people who answer for it. The principle of Equal Consideration applies along the whole path.
The starting point is a specific life: how a woman moves through the rules, what opportunities she gets, what limits she runs into and what price she pays for taking part in society.
Research makes it possible to structure this experience and compare it with the conditions in which it arose. The Women's Life-Cycle Economy Index is being developed for this work.
Checking sources and analysis help establish where a problem keeps recurring, which rules it is linked to and what conclusions the collected data support. Analytical and policy documents will translate these conclusions into the language of institutions.
The features of life that research identifies become requirements for design. Research is meant to help determine what exactly must be taken into account when a decision is made or revised.
The Equal Consideration Standard is being developed to turn the principle of Equal Consideration into criteria for checking decisions. Its first version is planned after the Index pilot. The Womafreesm Women's Protection Pathway and Legal Rapid Response are part of the organization's architecture as tools that will help a woman find help, get a legal assessment, and receive institutional support.
Evidence and proposals become the basis for work on laws, protocols, technologies and programs. The Womafreesm World Women's Assembly is planned as a mechanism for international cooperation around such changes.
Whether a new rule holds also depends on what society considers worthy of attention, respect and protection. Cultural projects, intellectual work and dialogue between traditions help change attitudes toward women's bodies, age, work and authority.
Where all this work is headed: a social order in which women and men set the rules together and take responsibility for the shared world.
Equal Consideration + Synarchat + New Cultural Norm The Results Register shows the development stage of each tool and the results confirmed so far.
Results RegisterTaking part begins where a person connects their own experience, knowledge or resources with responsibility for a shared future.
Women and men who share the principles of Equal Consideration and Synarchat can choose the way of taking part in Womafreesm that suits them: research, professional work, membership, or financial support. The options and terms are on the Join page. Membership is private by default.
We are building a path along which lived experience gains the force of knowledge, knowledge becomes the basis for decisions, and taking part in decisions turns into responsibility for the future.
There is a place for your contribution in Womafreesm. Choose the form of participation that matches your role and help build a future shaped through Equal Consideration and shared responsibility.
Join WomafreesmSynarchat is a mature model of shared governance in which women and men hold responsibility together for the laws, institutions and decisions a society lives by, keeping their differences and carrying equal weight in how decisions are made. Synarchat covers laws, work, medicine, technology, the economy and other decisions that shape people's opportunities.
No. The patriarchal model treated male experience as universal and pushed women's reality to the margins. A simple swap of the center of power would reproduce the same model of dominance in a different form. Synarchat changes the logic of the design itself: both sides hold responsibility for decisions, differences are kept, and both carry equal weight.
Both kinds of experience carry full value in framing the problem, in research, in choosing a decision and in assessing the result. Taking part must give a real ability to influence each of these stages. The specific mechanisms for that influence need to be set out in the rules of institutions.
Equal Consideration requires taking the real parameters of human life into account when systems are designed. Synarchat describes how women and men take part together in creating these systems and share responsibility for how they work.
Synarchat starts from the diversity of life experience. Women and men may have different interests, beliefs and proposals. Mature shared governance needs fair procedures for discussion, for testing arguments, and for making and revising decisions.
At Womafreesm, Synarchat has been formulated as a philosophical model and a direction of development. The research, legal and institutional tools are at different stages of preparation. Their status and results are recorded in the Results Register.
Marina Sukhomlinova, Founder & President, Womafreesm, is the author of the concept and the term Synarchat, of its original definition and of its philosophy within the architecture of Womafreesm. This page is the primary source of the definition, and the wording on it is the original.
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