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What difference would it make if women were in power? 5 Replies
Indra and I have been to a quite a few events in London recently on the topic of women in politics. The overwhelming feeling at these events is one of despair and anger. The speakers, quite rightly,…Continue
Started by Lee Chalmers. Last reply by indraadnan Mar 30, 2009.
Would you vote for a female independent candidate in the UK?
Lithuania elected its first ever female President today with an overwhelming 69% of the vote. Apparently people in Lithuania are tired of the political system and want something different. I guess an…Continue
Started by Lee Chalmers May 18, 2009.
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The Downing Street Project is a ground-breaking initiative to promote and enable balanced leadership between men and women at every level of society, up to and including 10 Downing Street. Despite constituting 51% of the UK population, women still hold only 11% of directorships in business boardrooms, 36.9% of top jobs in the health service and 19.5% of seats in the Houses of Parliament.
Research has shown that women are excellent mediators, networkers and problem solvers. They are skilled at keeping cool in a crisis and willing to develop themselves in the face of difficulty. The Downing Street Project founders believe that these qualities are called for to address the challenges we currently face; that women have a responsibility to step up to take leadership roles.
This is not a call for simple numerical equality, but a plea for deep cultural change. How can we move on from our ‘hard powered’ ethos – with its excessive risk, competition and reliance on force – to a ‘softer powered’ public space? One more reliant on co-operation, co-creation and what President Obama describes as “the power of our example” – being the change we wish to see?
The Downing Street Project is a ground-breaking initiative to promote and enable balanced leadership between men and women at every level of society, up to and including 10 Downing Street. Despite constituting 51% of the UK population, women still hold only 11% of directorships in business boardrooms, 36.9% of top jobs in the health service and 19.5% of seats in the Houses of Parliament.
Research has shown that women are excellent mediators, networkers and problem solvers. They are skilled at keeping cool in a crisis and willing to develop themselves in the face of difficulty. The Downing Street Project founders believe that these qualities are called for to address the challenges we currently face; that women have a responsibility to step up to take leadership roles.
This is not a call for simple numerical equality, but a plea for deep cultural change. How can we move on from our ‘hard powered’ ethos – with its excessive risk, competition and reliance on force – to a ‘softer powered’ public space? One more reliant on co-operation, co-creation and what President Obama describes as “the power of our example” – being the change we wish to see?
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Owen Jones: The battle that men who aren't sexist must fight - Commentators - Opinion - The Independent
Men still struggle to talk about their feelings (with often devastating mental consequences); numerous studies have found they are more likely to interrupt women than interrupt other men; recent research by the IPPR think-tank found that eight in 10 married women do more housework than their husbands; and some men are clearly sitting in their Y-fronts while they spew misogynistic venom over Louise Mensch's Twitter feed. But the old boorish, domineering man is in retreat: straight men are more likely to have friends who are women or gay; the number of "househusbands" has tripled in the past 15 years; and the male "grooming" industry booms as men tend to their appearance in a manner once seen as "womanly"...There is no finer way of putting it than how US feminist anthropologist Margaret Mead did, many decades ago: "Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man."Brazil: "state feminism" at work | openDemocracy
Without greater representation in the upper echelons of the legislative, judiciary, and executive systems, “participative” state feminism has thus made it possible for feminists to take a greater part in the formulation and monitoring of public policies that respond to women’s demands in building a more equitable society. But, of course, this does not mean that participative state feminism has obviated the tensions between feminist and women’s movements and the state, nor that feminisms are free from state “co-option”. According to Shahra Razavi the expansion of “state feminism” may be seen as resulting from blockages to women’s participation through more traditional processes (party politics, for instance). In these circumstances, one strategy ↑ “is to enter and work directly through the state bureaucracy.” For Razavi ↑ , therefore, “State feminism, as it is more widely known, is essentially a post-liberal democratic solution and one possible institutional channel for giving voiceOxbridge professor of economics: 'Women are the super troopers' | Joris Luyendijk | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
"It's a divide between British white students on the one hand, and the lower middle-class and working-class offspring of migrant families on the other. The Chinese, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, the Indians and the Middle Eastern ones, they don't drink. They don't do drugs. They don't fornicate. They sail their career ships. "I tell students, do nothing that stands in your way. And I tell the men don't screw up your network by sleeping with females. Form friendships with them. If she makes it into the City eventually, she will have real power as she will have to be so much better and so much tougher. Women who make it in the City are the super troopers and they may be the ones to help you to that job.BBC News - Meghalaya, India: Where women rule, and men are suffragettes
Extraordinary, but this is not an April Fools joke. Can't see that this imbalance is any better than the one we have now, but it is a useful tool for changing perception and expectations.Far better equipped to survive | The Times
Fascinating piece - well worth going beyond the Times firewall - on the survival chance of men over women in a catastropheLatest Activity
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