Not really....
Posted on 10/16/2011 9:51:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Next month marks the 21st anniversary of Margaret Thatcher's enforced resignation as Prime Minister. It is now more than 30 years since she first gained power. She was not, of course, the first woman to lead a major country. That honour fell to Indira Gandhi in India and Golda Meir in Israel. But along with Gandhi, Thatcher's 11 years at the top make her the longest-serving woman prime minister the world has seen.
The strange thing is that despite the advancement of women in business and the professions and the growing numbers of women entering politics in leading Western countries, neither Britain nor America have come remotely near electing another female leader these past 30 years.
True Germany has Angela Merkel and Australia has Julia Gillard. But in the Anglo-Saxon world of the northern hemisphere, women have made surprisingly little headway at the very summit of politics.
As the United States prepares for its presidential election next year, its most charismatic female politicians are losing ground. After much speculation about her intentions, Sarah Palin has announced she will not run- and Michele Bachmann has fallen away badly in the opinion polls.
Quite why this should be true is not entirely clear. Alongside Geraldine Ferraro in 1984, Palin is the only woman in the US to have run for vice-president, attracting much liberal-Left derision in the process Evidently, she decided this time not to subject herself and her family to the intense scrutiny of a presidential bid - and, of course, judged that her chances of victory were slim....
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There’s no kitchen in the Oval Office.
Not really....
'Cause they are tired of the 'missionary position'?
Because women often hate other women.
The most vehement personal dislike I've seen for both Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, and Sarah Palin all came from women, except for Palin's case where it came from effeminate male homos.
I'm not referring to political disagreements or questions in judgment either, but the nasty personal stuff.
Didn’t a Roman Senator say, “Make women your equal, they will rule you.”
Perhaps because women mistake networking for accomplishment. In business it’s not all networking and in politics it’s not networking, it’s about being able to do your job. Throw in that sometimes women base decisions on personal perspectives, not what is good for the country, and you have a voting bloc that doesn’t want anything unpleasant, just a continuation of the good life. A lot of women voters don’t want what is best for the country, but what is ‘fun’ or ‘social,’ or always pleasant. Sarah Palin turns some women off because she likes to handle a gun, shoot animals, and get her hands dirty, something that a lot of women these days think is ‘icky.’ Obama won a huge vote because he is pleasant and doesn’t want Americans to sacrfice anything but their freedom and self respect. There is no point in denying that and there’s also a snippy cliqueish tendency that if a woman is too much of an ‘outsider,’ then she won’t get voted in. I soemtimes think America has been reduced to becoming one big high school campus. Sarah is the ‘out’ girl and as a result she won’t get into office. She might be widely respected and widely admired aroudn the world, but it’s at home where she has to get voted ‘in.’ No vote, no Presidency.
They have these pesky things called elections. People (for the most part) can’t just be appointed.
I’ll never forget the liberal I heard once explaining that the Supreme Soviet was more representative than the US Congress brcause they had more women.
I think you are confusing raising children with leading people, which is two completely different things.
Really? Huh? Seems to me those kids down on Wall Street could use some mothering....LOL
“Seems to me those kids down on Wall Street could use some mothering”
Bah! They need to have that good old fashioned fear in them of what the old man (dad) is gonna say when he gets home from work.
True. I’ve noticed at work when I’ve had female bosses, there’s much more emphasis on discussing social activities and one’s personal life. With the male bosses I’ve worked for, it’s much more impersonal and focused on the job at hand which is fine with me since I’ve come to work not to a party.
In one recent instance, a certain female declined to run. You can’t win if you don’t run. The recent surge of Cain would never had happened if this woman entered.
And, the only reason that the swine Hitlery lost in ‘08 was b/c she didn’t prepare for the later primaries, so confident was she that the race would be a blowout.
I think maybe she was warned off by the elite country-clubbers and Dems. She gets death threats EVERY DAY and you know that Obama isn’t about to be gracious and give her Secret Service protection like President Bush did for him way back in 2007! I’ve been in both military intelligence and presidential campaigns and there’s a hell of a lot that the public doesn’t see. They want this to be Romney vs. Obama and they’ll do ANYTHING to get their way! Why do you think that Christie isn’t running? And they cut Michele off at the knees and will keep attacking her until she gives up. You know I was going to raise $2 million for her, but I think she was told, in no uncertain terms, to back off. The way Bristol was talking last summer it was a done deal, so you know something happened. I worked for both Presidents Carter and Reagan and you have no idea how many devious people there are at the upper level of politics and government!
Until women learn that not everything is personal or about envy, there will not at all be any women struggling to get to the top of politics or anything else. Male bosses are also a lot less high strung.
With the amount of abuse she has had to sustain, this is precisely why this country will never get back on it’s feet. We are on our knees as a nation and in other countries they don’t undermine their leaders half as much as we do here. No one in this country really wants to face anything unpleasant at all, no one wants to get their hands dirty, other than all the wrong people.
Our media is the very reason taht the tough ones are not rising to the occasion. There are other factors, but this is a significant one. Most genuine power players who rise to the top are not good at marketing themselves and much to my regret, marketing has become a huge part of becoming successful in the world of politics in the West.
I think that the movie “Dave” said it all about the reality of most characters at the top in politics. They are human garbage. Sarah and family needed protection desperately, and the Failure was not aboout to accord them that. It’s sad beyond words. Were you with the S.S., BTW? Bob
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