Women in power

I think one of the better defining moments in the last two years of the U.S. is that Condi Rice was lambasted more for her politics and dedication to Bush rather than being black, female, and single when she became Secretary of State.

I personally remember smirking to myself at whatever article I read that mentioned that she was the first black female Sec. of State as the last sentence of the article after all the detail of the partisan wrankling preceding it.

I personally don't see Condi or Hillary becoming the first female president; however, I don't think the reason neither of them will is because of their gender, but because of their politics.
 
I clicked on this thread thinking it would be about BD/SM.

Boy, am I disapointed. :(
 
Grammatron said:
Different how?
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This is a good question, and I don't have a precise answer. Just a sense that if the gender ratio among world leaders approached the gender ratio in the general population, there might be a slow but real shift in the way we, the human race, view women, treat women, respect women, etc.

In some parts of the world we're still stuck in the Middle Ages (no offense intended to fans of the Middle Ages), but in general, it seems that such a shift already has occurred in the last century here in the U.S. and in other places. I'm talking about societal norms, sentiments and values regarding women. Some people would argue that despite setbacks and shortcomings, society has been moving in the right direction during the last century or so, what with woman suffrage and all.

Does that mean female leaders would be any better than the men? Probably not. But the world would be a different (probably better) place.
 
I agree that seeing greater representation of women in political leadership would be a good thing, but not because in itself that's a worthy goal; the goal, as noted in earlier posts, is electing the right person for the job, sex be damned ("sex" as in "male or female;" rest assured I'm very much against damning the act(s)). It would be a sign that our political culture is healthy at least in the male-female demographic respect, not the means to chieve that situation.
 
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