Women Leaders in International Relations
In my opinion, International Relations would operate differently if most leaders of states were women. Maybe for the better, maybe for the worse but things would definitely be different. In order to determine how drastic the differences may be in relation to male leaders, we may have to take each woman player’s background, self-interests, and beliefs into consideration. After thorough research, I feel we would discover that women gender plays an important role in all aspects of life. In an analysis by Joseph Nye at www.scotsman.com, he states that, “As mothers, women have evolutionary incentives to maintain peaceful conditions in which to nurture their offspring. Skeptics immediately reply that women have not made war simply because they have rarely been in power.”
According to the article titled If Women Ruled the World, we must keep in mind that “90% of the folks who are in jail are male. Men are much more likely than women to develop their aggressive side. The male hormones, androgen and testosterone; male physical strength; the cultural mandate that men be warriors; the societal conditioning of men to avoid tender feelings; the evolution of an economic system that rewards competition rather than co-operation; and the expectation, until quite recently, that the male be the bread-winner: all these factors have combined to push aggression in the male and to discourage the development of relationality, spirituality, and an emotional life that can contain fear and sadness as well as anger.” This information alone is evidence that men behave differently than women, especially where leadership is the main topic.
If most states leaders were women, it is believed that the United States would not waste its resources on foreign wars to protect American business interests and to support our poor habits of consumption. Instead, the money would be used for education, for service to the most vulnerable among us, for the strengthening of our infrastructure, both
According to the article titled If Women Ruled the World, we must keep in mind that “90% of the folks who are in jail are male. Men are much more likely than women to develop their aggressive side. The male hormones, androgen and testosterone; male physical strength; the cultural mandate that men be warriors; the societal conditioning of men to avoid tender feelings; the evolution of an economic system that rewards competition rather than co-operation; and the expectation, until quite recently, that the male be the bread-winner: all these factors have combined to push aggression in the male and to discourage the development of relationality, spirituality, and an emotional life that can contain fear and sadness as well as anger.” This information alone is evidence that men behave differently than women, especially where leadership is the main topic.
If most states leaders were women, it is believed that the United States would not waste its resources on foreign wars to protect American business interests and to support our poor habits of consumption. Instead, the money would be used for education, for service to the most vulnerable among us, for the strengthening of our infrastructure, both