Posted on 03/09/2013 7:30:47 AM PST by haffast
Not so long ago, the idea that women might rule the world seemed slightly ridiculous - like something out of science fiction. But in an essay to mark International Women's Day, political analyst and former White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers argues it's now a topic that can be seriously discussed.
Women clearly lacked the intellectual capacity and emotional fortitude to make the difficult decisions that leadership required. It wasn't bias, it was biology - it was just the way women were made.
But that was then. In recent decades, attitudes and ideas have changed - and fast. That's not to say that every corner of the world has welcomed women moving from the traditional and private into the modern and public. But move they have.
So what's changed? A lot. As a huge and growing body of research and experience makes clear, empowering women makes things better. Not perfect. But better.
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Former US Secretary of State Dr Condoleezza Rice says she has learned first-hand that you need women to participate in the peace process.
"First and foremost women are often the guardians of the village, the family, and are therefore the ones who suffer most in conflict zones. They're often the target of marauding forces, the target of those who would rape and maim and if you can engage them in the process, then they also can help the society to heal."
So empowering women isn't about political correctness, it's about improving outcomes. It's about investing in stronger economies and healthier communities - it's about ending conflicts, and sustaining peace. It's about improving the quality of life for people all over the world.
Empowering women isn't just the right thing, it's the necessary thing. And because women are increasingly ruling, the world is changing for the better.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
While I enjoy a joke as much as the next guy, the deleterious effects of female influence on public policy is no laughing matter.
Even the Bible recognizes the disaster of women in positions of power. The book of Isaiah declares women and children as rulers to be a punishment from God.
President Barack Obama won the two-party vote among female voters in the 2012 election by 12 points, 56% to 44%, over Republican challenger Mitt Romney. Meanwhile, Romney won among men by an eight-point margin, 54% to 46%. That total 20-point gender gap is the largest Gallup has measured in a presidential election since it began compiling the vote by major subgroups in 1952.
Need I go on?
The only difference between a terrorist and a woman on PMS is that you can negotiate with the terrorist.
Those are the scariest words I've ever seen on this forum
Men would have to sit down to pee.
The odd thing is they totally believe this, but if
Sarah Palin was the candidate they would be horrified,
“Oh, not THAT kind of woman!”.
Yes. I am entitled to my opinion. I have killed to ensure I have that right.
Just as I have killed to ensure yours.
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And so what? First off do you think the only way to protect freedom is thru killing? Secondly, you know about my service record how?
And I’m calling BS - because women are still human, and subject to the same motives & emotions (greed, covetousness, jealousy, anger, humiliation, etc.) that drive men to conflicts and war.
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Absolutely agree, to pretend women are not human and subject to the same stuff as we men are is silly.
However ... I’ll posit that women are less likely to put their babies in harm’s way. Just a thought.
Bumper sticker...
“There are those who say the world would be a better
place if lead by women.”
OK, vote Palin!
Our Constitution was not designed to be administered by women as they prize “security” over “liberty.”
Giving them an instant majority vote without changing that Constitution to protect Americans from the oppression of women as effectively as it protects from the oppression of men was the beginning of the end.
IMO, it’s the people who don’t pay attention to what is REALLY going on and who behave like freaking sheep following whatever is popular, that are to blame for societal breakdown.
And of course, both sexes are equally known for their reverence of a concept known as “fashion.”
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Your response is an indication of picking nits.
You really think that men, especially politicians don’t stick their finger in the wind to see which way the public sentiment is flowing? Of course they do...so do women. THAT was my point.
I was not saying women are better than men...I was saying that when it comes to leading, voting, decision making, no one sex is better than the other.
Where did you learn that - in college?
President Barack Obama won the two-party vote among female voters in the 2012 election by 12 points, 56% to 44%, over Republican challenger Mitt Romney. Meanwhile, Romney won among men by an eight-point margin, 54% to 46%. That total 20-point gender gap is the largest Gallup has measured in a presidential election since it began compiling the vote by major subgroups in 1952.
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And? So everything that is wrong happened in the last year? The last 4 years? The last 30 years? Really? Oh, that’s right. Everything bad is due to women having an undue influence on the world stage.
On behalf of all women, okay, just me....please forgive me. I will stop voting and working to elect conservatives in my blue state. Yep, that’s me, sitting back meekly and darning my spouses socks.
//sarc
How much of Europe is speaking German right now?
They are not, however, prone to the same strategies of coercion; thus making them "loose cannons" under our current form of government.
Do you think men and women are the same?
It depends on the women you have. Would you rather have someone like Sarah Palin or Margaret Thatcher running things, or do you prefer Nancy Pelosi and Hilary Clinton?
How long has the gender gap in voting existed? I believe it has existed since Gallup started looking for it.
There is reason the Democrat Party is called the Mommy Party and the Republican Party is called the Daddy Party.
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