In think you're right, but in my own experience
it's changing in most spheres. In the US women
who in a previous generation would have been
powers behind their men's thrones are now running
for office in increased numbers. Even in
antediluvian Texas the governor before Bush was a
woman. There are also a lot of very powerful
women in the news media, and women are in fact
running more businesses of every size--I think a
big part of the disparity there is that CEOs tend
to be of an older generation, when the boardrooms
were male-dominated. I suspect that in another
decade things might look very different.
Hopefully we'll live to see if I'm right. And
hopefully catastrophic changes won't make it so that we don't care.
Mark
At 06:36 PM 4/2/2006, you wrote:
>On 3/4/06 2:13 AM, "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > In my junior classes, & for some years now, there were more women than
> > men, but also the women tended to speak out more often than the men. In
> > senior courses, pretty well the same situation. Also in the creative
> > writing classes, where I arranged so that everyone had to speak out,
> > but where usually the women did so more thoroughly, more carefully,
> > more usefully.
>
>That's pretty universal in all the posts here. In my experience too. But
>what about other situations? Certainly until relatively recently (and
>perhaps it's still the case - I haven't looked at any stats lately - though
>it seems to me to have changed a bit) women spoke out significantly less on
>list servs, and if figures went up, it tended to be loudmouths like me
>talking to much rather than lots of women. Most poetry editors complain that
>their contributions from women are significantly lower than men. And men are
>probably dominant in most social situations. Is it that the perceived
>protection of the classroom allows women to be more articulate? Just
>throwing this into the mix. I donšt' see women being dominant in the news
>media, in politics etc, and businesses are still run mostly by men.
>
>All best
>
>A
>
>
>Alison Croggon
>
>Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
>Editor, Masthead: http://masthead.net.au
>Home page: http://alisoncroggon.com
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