[Magdalen] More USA Today.

[Lynn Ronkainen]

David S> The front page of this national newspaper has an article that > 
continues extensively inside about the extra difficulties women have
> in breaking through into the upper levels of politics, state and 
> national. SNIP > It strikes me as odd with the demonstration of the strong 
> women
> leaders in Europe for some time.
>


...wonder if it comes from having a long and difficult history as 'a 
people'?  We may be fast approaching that having added a few notches to the 
handle of the ax, sword, automatic weapon....and then in another generation 
or so, women may rise to the top here (sarcastic but perhaps succinct take 
on this).  Really we've been on the ascent internationally for most of the 
time since colonization began here... and then we tidied up the world in 
1945... and since then it's been a bit uneven, for a long, long time.

Lynn

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>
> There is the somewhat unusual distrust that seems intrinsic to men
> but surprisingly to women, too.  A considerable block of voters,  men
> and women alike do not trust a woman politician.  This is a  difficult
> handicap for women to overcome who would aspire to these positions.
>
 Witness the "Iron Lady"  Margaret
> Thatcher in the UK and Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany and
> de facto Prime Minister of Europe.  Who can forget  Milwaukee-born
> Golda Meier who guided Israel through the Six Day War?
>
> If "The Fatherland" can accept a woman leader, why not the USA?
>
>
> David Strang.