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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,…
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…
Started by Lee Chalmers May. 18, 2009.
What is the Downing Street Project?
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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What we stand for @ The Third Age
Posted by Carole Railton on July 14, 2010 at 12:04pm
5 words to describe what #politics is...
Posted by Ali Fisher on June 15, 2010 at 8:58pm
The Aspire Foundation launched this week
Posted by Lee Chalmers on May 11, 2010 at 1:42pm
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David Miliband woos women in Labour leadership battle
DM was obviously listening to our Mock Cabinet, with emphasis on shorter working weeks, job sharing and quotas.I used to hold back the tears. Now I cry all the time
More evidence of the shrinking divide between men and women, mostly around parenting: "I'd also seen Toy Story 3 the night before. It has been hailed as the movie that makes it OK for men to cry, but it's more like the film that makes it impossible for them to desist. Again, I'd sat through two of them previously, so I thought I knew what was coming. It didn't matter. Within minutes tears were slipping out from under my 3D glasses.....I'm aware of Peter Bradshaw's theory that the Toy Story canon is an allegorical saga exploring parental obsolescence – it's about your kids outgrowing you, essentially – which is why it unleashes all manner of inappropriate emotions from unsuspecting fathers, but I think I still would have cried even if it was just about some talking toys. I cried when Woody lost his hat, for Christ's sake."
A new journalism on the horizon?
Andrew Marr muses: "Our appetite for long-term campaigning and focus fritters away. Fast news has had the same effect on our minds as fast food has had on our physiques. The next media age may be differently configured. We may have a group of very large "aggregators" bringing busy people the most important new news of the day, rather as now, but there will be fewer of them."The role of maturity in open leadership
Bill Torbert believes the pool of talent required to be capable of genuinely open leadership increases with age. "Turning our workplaces into 'Learning Organisations' is a goal that bestselling business author Peter Senge popularised in the mid-90s, but which proved to be, well..., difficult. I doubt these findings about quite how small the pool of 'learning leaders' seems to be were widely known back then (though Senge nowadays recommends Torbert's work)."The rise of older models
Perfect timing to herald our Mock Ministry of the Third Age! "In the space of the last year, a curious thing has happened. Older women have become increasingly visible in the arena in which, above all others, nubile youth has long trumped all else: fashion."Latest Activity
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