Women Rule?

[DavidUK]

Would the world be a better place if only women were allowed into positions of power? Or would the power just make them like men eventually, anyway?

[comloulou]

Women have generally aspired to masculine traits when in power, Elizabeth 1st said "I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a King," and Thatcher was no 'stereo-typical' female. Maybe the idea of gender as a personality trait just doesnt work when applied to positions of power. I think whatever the balance of men to women in power, humans will tend to lead in a very similar fashion.

[Pickle]

The problem is that most of the world is patriarchal. It's accepted that men are in positions of power. It's easier for men to get there and easier for them to do their jobs once they are there. The world will have to be a completely different place, be matriarchal, for women to succeed in positions of power.

[Gef]

Remember Maggie Thatcher?

[sft42]

I think the point your trying to make is would the world be better ruled in a more feminine way....Thatcher was a masculine leader who carried a handbag.....hell why not let the ladies run the show for a while.....they cetrainly couldn't screw it up any worse than the way men have got on for the past few millenia.

[darth vader]

yeah well said Ned Flanders, why should we let immigrants in? I mean it's not as if we help ourselves to their country when we feel like it,..... well apart from India in the 1800's/1900's, oh and of course South Africa last century, not forgetting Australia when we helped ourselves to the resources and dumped all our "undesireables", and of course there was North America when we settled there having drove out the indigenous Native Indians......... (History of British Empire continues for 42 pages...)

[boognish76]

Margaret Thatcher wasn't a woman - you have to be human to be a woman.

[hexic]

ned, surely if these people were allowed to have jobs and education while their claims are processed, they wouldn't have to sponge off the state. If you keep saying illegal immigrants and terrorist in the same sentence enough times, maybe ppl will make the connection youre hinting at.