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The Death of Men:The Day of the Disaster
The death of men happened very quickly and without warning. On the 26th of June 3 years ago all men in the world started coughing and crying blood. Within minutes they were all dead, and many women with them.
The Struggle for Survival - The first few months after the Disaster
The women of the world who survived the cataclysm faced two huge challenges in the weeks immediately afterwards. One was the emotional trauma of seeing more than half the worlds population die in one day. Husbands, sons, fathers and friends were all dead.
The other was the practical difficulties they had to deal with while in a state of shock and sorrow.
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Making sense of it all - Religions in a world without men
The apocalypse is no longer a dire warning of what is in the future for humanity, it is a reality which has arrived and which the surviviors are trying to cope with every day. What has happened and what will become of the world now, is wide open to interpretations, both religious and secular.
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Love, Sexuality and New Families
The death of all the men was the death of all the boyfriends, husbands and lovers of the world. It was also the death of future possible heterosexual love relationships. As many women are still experiencing a lot of of grief for those lost and for many of them questions of love and sexuality are something primarily of the past and surrounded by loss and nostalgia.
The Nordic Union
The Nordic countries were comparatively less severely hit during the aftermath of the crisis than many other parts of the world. Being countries with a higher degree of gender equality than other parts of the world; the Nordic governments were able to become functioning entities again more quickly. As almost half of the politicians were women all the essential positions left vacant by the dead men were quickly filled.