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Women in power

nosho

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Angela Merkel in Germany. Michelle Bachele in Chile. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf in Liberia.

And in the U.S.? Hillary or Condi in '08?
 
Grammatron said:
Who cares? As long as the person can do the job, it doesn't matter.
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I suspect that the point may be that not so long ago, it didn't matter if a woman could do the job better than anyone else, she still had little hope of getting the job. Of course, this might not be the point at all.
 
It does seem as though women, finally, are getting more of a fair shot at running things in some parts of the world. Who cares? I don't know, maybe women do.

Germany gets its first female head of state in something like 2 centuries. South America gets it first female president who didn't rise to power on her husband's coat tails. And Africa gets its first elected female president (I think, unless I'm unaware of a previous one). All in a short few months. Probably not a trend, but one can dream.

I tend to think the world would be a different place if more women were in power. I'd like to see a woman in power in the U.S. Assuming, of course, that it's someone who can do the job.

If everything else were equal (hypothetically), I'd prefer a woman in the White House for a change.
 
More than the surge in women what surprised me was that an open non-believer was elected (in Chile). I wonder how many of those there are in power. Not many I bet.
 
nosho said:
I tend to think the world would be a different place if more women were in power. I'd like to see a woman in power in the U.S. Assuming, of course, that it's someone who can do the job.

If everything else were equal (hypothetically), I'd prefer a woman in the White House for a change.
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Different how?
 
fishbob said:
I suspect that the point may be that not so long ago, it didn't matter if a woman could do the job better than anyone else, she still had little hope of getting the job. Of course, this might not be the point at all.
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Gold Meir, Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi?

They got the jobs. I'm not convinced they were all that great at them, however.
 
Well, in my own country I'm in favor of more women in power. But I wonder about the potential backlash, too.

Just to name more examples: Benazir Bhutto, Tansu Ciller.
 
I warmly await the time when women can prove themselves just as corrupt, ineffectual, and idiotic in positions of power as the men are.
 
I think it's great that more women are getting positions of power. After many millenia of mostly men running the show, it's time women own up to the responsibility of leadership.

IIRC Certain Mohawk tribes around the St Lawrence would require the permission of the elder women in the tribe in order to wage war on another tribe. This makes sense, especially since women have a big commitment to childbirth and raising of future warriors. Can we afford to lose men at this time?, would be a weighing factor in a decision.

Charlie (amazingly Europeans called Native Indians savages way back) Monoxide
 
Why, oh why, do people forget about Kim Campbell (the non-elect successor to the good ol' Baie-Comois that is Brian Mulroney)?
 
Jorghnassen said:
Why, oh why, do people forget about Kim Campbell (the non-elect successor to the good ol' Baie-Comois that is Brian Mulroney)?
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Didn't she do that cover of "You Keep Me Hanging On" in the eighties? That was a pretty good song. Oh wait, that was Kim Wilde. Never mind.
 
TragicMonkey said:
I warmly await the time when women can prove themselves just as corrupt, ineffectual, and idiotic in positions of power as the men are.
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Now that's a properly equal, reasonably cynical response. :)
 
ysabella said:
Just to name more examples: Benazir Bhutto, Tansu Ciller.
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Corazon Aquino, Glorio Arroyo, Vigdis Finnbogadottir, Mary Eugenia Charles, Mary Robinson, Sirivamo Bandaranaike. Mostly more recent, but Bandaranaike was elected in 1960.
 
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