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From: debray@sbcs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: women as world leaders
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Date: Mon, 18-Jul-83 16:09:35 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 18 16:09:35 1983
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I'm not sure I agree with the thesis that the world would be a more
peaceful place if women were world leaders. The view that women are
less aggressive than men seems, to me, to be based on an essentially
obsolete stereotype dating back to the days when the woman stayed at
home and cooked while her man went out and conquered the world!
True, many women, even today, are less aggressive than most men; however,
the increasing number of aggressive women seems to indicate that that
might very well be due to social factors, and not any inherent
difference between the sexes. In which case, it would seem, little
would be changed if all the world leaders were women.


Saumya Debray
SUNY at Stony Brook