Are woman leaders less prone to corruption? - General

[QUOTE=BlueChihuahua;32517930]Then you should understand my point precisely.[/QUOTE] ... but you see, it doesn't bother me. I respectfully defended my position against the professor during class and allowed the other students to decide who they wanted to believe. [editline]27th September 2011[/editline] I take 0 personal offense from other people's words.

[QUOTE=sgman91;32517956]... but you see, it doesn't bother me. I respectfully defended my position against the professor during class and allowed the other students to decide who they wanted to believe. [editline]27th September 2011[/editline] I take 0 personal offense from other people's words.[/QUOTE] You've seemed to miss my point. The thread's about whether women make competent leaders & I'm simply making the point that using exaggerated stereotypes to hold them down in one's mind is a silly thing to do. It's just as silly for women to hold their gender higher than men.

[QUOTE=wraithcat;32515888]@chrille - as to driving. One of the articles you linked to directly leads to another one which blatantly states that women make better drivers - by accident amount.[/QUOTE] That has been linked to overconfidence several times. I think I should state my opinion on this, though. I don't think men are better world leaders than women. I just acknowledge that we're different. Edit: Even if the difference aren't very big.

I think in present society its difficult to determin a 'woman' and a 'man' by traditional methods. I was reading a study by Dr. Sandra Lipsitz Bem a psychologist who developed the gender schema theory to explain how individuals come to use gender as an organizing category in all aspects of their life. It is based on the combination of aspects of the social learning theory and the cognitive-development theory of sex role acquisition. In 1971, she created the Bem Sex Role Inventory to measure how well you fit into your traditional gender role by characterizing your personality as masculine, feminine, androgynous, or undifferentiated. She believed that through gender-schematic processing, a person spontaneously sorts attributes and behaviors into masculine and feminine categories. Therefore, an individual processes information and regulate their behavior based on whatever definitions of femininity and masculinity their culture provides. In short, males and females pick up traits from both sexes through social upbringing and biology which could explain why you can usually get flamboyant men or very butch or 'tomboy' females. Societies have had many great female leaders, there was one that completely worshiped females as superior to woman and also worshiped bulls and is likely how Plato was influenced for his story on Atlantis. There was also great woman warriors such as Boudicca or Joan of Arc. Woman leaders have played important roles in cultures where there is a direct conflict with the western concept of a 'princess', but have also served their societies in tribal warfare and rebellion, as well. The Dahomey people, who live in western Africa also established an all female militia, who served as royal bodyguards to the king and regard to Native American history, the majority of Native American tribes possessed respected and well established women leaders of their "militia". These female leaders determined the fate of prisoners of war among other tribal decisions. However, the Europeans and early American men refused to deal with Native American women on such matters and so their significance was not understood or appreciated until relatively recently. In South Asia and the Indian Subcontinent, the concept of a "woman warrior" exists both in mythology and in history, and there are records of women who have led armies into battle. Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi was one of the leading figures of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and was described by the British as "remarkable for her beauty, cleverness and perseverance", and that she had been "the most dangerous of all the rebel leaders". Unniyarcha was a famed warrior princess who lived in Kerala during the 16th century. Kittur Chennamma, queen of the princely state of Kittur led a rebellion against the British decades before the 1857 uprising.

[QUOTE=Elecbullet;32517365]I don't consider it sexist to consider the possibility that there would be sexual dimorphism in the human species.[/QUOTE] zero evidence to suggest sexual dimorphism extends to brain capacity or behavior.

[QUOTE=Maximo13;32507208]Because men have been in power far longer than women have.[/QUOTE] As I pretty much stated in the row below that...

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[QUOTE=Scar;32502808]Wasn't there some office that employed exclusively women? Yeah, it closed after a one or two months[/QUOTE] urban myth [QUOTE=Scar;32502840]Male and female minds work differntly, that's a fact[/QUOTE] they work differently because society and education teaches men to be obnoxious and assertive, while it teaches women to be submissive

[QUOTE=Max of S2D;32519391]they work differently because society and education teaches men to be obnoxious and assertive, while it teaches women to be submissive[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=thisispain;32518908]zero evidence to suggest sexual dimorphism extends to brain capacity or behavior.[/QUOTE]Right, because we teach little boys more spatial awareness than little girls.

[QUOTE=Silly Sil;32519591]Right, because we teach little boys more spatial awareness than little girls.[/QUOTE] yeah because it's not like boys learn more about spatial awareness because they play with toys involving architecture and engineering like cars or large building things with little toy soldiers in them. no it can't be anything like that. sarcasm doesn't help if you don't know what you're being sarcastic about.