Chapters 1-5 by Sarah Iglesias

Sarah Iglesias
Chapters 1-5

Closing the Leadership Gap: Why Women Can And Must Help Run The World

Here are some statistics about women in Politics:
“There are 435 seats in the House of Representatives and only 60 are occupied by women and out of 100 senators only 14 are women. Only 26 women have been governors of the United States” (P.xii).
The women in the House of Representatives are the ones passing bills that would benefit women and children, like better schools and education, birth control for women, and still fighting for equal rights for women in the workforce.
I don’t understand why women are seen different? Some of us can do a men’s job three times better and to perfection.
Women should be able to go out their in the world and get a job and not be lower then men but equal. Some should have the right to stop being the full time mom and house maid but get an education and peruse her dream, and not be what others think women should be. “No women shall allow any person define her but herself.” (p.37)
If I didn’t have job I would be very bored. After you cleaned the house and took care of the children then what would you do? I would really hate that job. It is not like having the freedom to do what you want. Women did what men told them to do and they didn’t argue back afraid of what they would lose.
Do you remember reading the Scarlet letter and Hester Paynne had to wear the scarlet letter on her chest because she committed adultery and broke from society. “The A’s that resound for me: authority, ambition, ability, and authenticity.” (p.29) “The trick is to take confining A’s of our lives authority, ambition, ability, and authenticity- and turn them into strengths, as Prynne did." (p71). Throughout history women have been denied the authority because it is a men’s world. Men were they only ones to have the authority because they were masculinity. Women were seen for the way they look and not for what they were trying to prove. Women have the same right to become a leader. Women didn’t have the power. Marjorie “Mo” Mowlam a member of the British Parliament once said, “It is important for women to not just be in office, but in power. Women must be in power before we can said to be equal.”(p. 33)
“Ambition in men is an expectation and a virtue. In women, it can be a kiss of death, guaranteeing isolation, ending relationships (personal and professional), pushing entire families into therapy, and making even the most self-assured CEO worker wonder what she was thinking.” (p.53) If women were ambitious it would be seen as insanity and it was not lady like. Men would see it as a mental incapability. Women were just trying to break free of the men’s power and better their range of opportunities. “Women in power have a chance to rewrite the meaning of the word, to have ambition for fairness, a just and safe world for our families and a more cohesive community acting for a common good.” (p.71).
Women now have the same ability as in men. If men can become leaders why can’t women? Women are growing stronger and stronger and one day there will be there first women to become president of the United States of America. “76 percent express their personal comfort with a women president, and 50 percent of people are comfortable with a female head of state.” (p. 79)
“Women are seen as better communicators and listeners, they are more nurturing, more willing to involve other in decision making and work as a team.” (p.9)
To me this quote means woman are as good as leadership then men. Are women less capable and knowledgeable of becoming a leader? If women were in charge then we would not be at war. I think men like to go to war and destroy things. That is all boys do now in my preschool class they like to destroy things would out using their brains. They don’t even care who they hurt in the way of their destruction. Women leaders “are more likely to believe nations need to work together. Support international programs that meet basic human needs-a “human security” agenda- and empower women. Emphasize diplomacy over the military power.” (p. 86)
I think men are afraid of women. They are afraid of losing their jobs to women because they can do their jobs better and without conflict. Also I think women are sticking up for themselves and are becoming very powerful. One day there would be a women president and the world would be a better place for children to grow up and stop wars from happening. The time has ended and women are stepping up to the plate and women are going to becomes the best leaders United States has ever had and show men we and do it better and look better doing our jobs. Women don’t want to be told what to do they deserve freedom and deserve to fallow their dreams and aspirations.