Would the world be more peaceful if there were more women leaders?

[C C]

RE: article topic, Would the world be more peaceful if there were more women leaders?

Since individual women would be plugged into administrative offices that were created during the patriarchal era, and thereby subject to the template of standards, traditions, advice, policies, strategies and role-playing expectations of those offices which were likewise formulated and entrenched during the reign of men... Then I don't see how a female leader could fully get "in touch" with and exercise any supposed alternative, "matriarchal worldview" that would end or feature fewer wars, anyway. As _X_ female leader would be constrained by those pre-existing institutions, forms of management and systemic evaluation of the quality of that management under _X_ leader.

Even the anti-West fervor of those late, Marxist variants born in the 20th century, touting what amounts to some Rorty-esque "no culture gets reality right anymore than any other", was largely the product of male philosophers. Back in time, the pre-Western influenced societies around the world were overwhelmingly patriarchal as well, with plenty of unabated brutality and horrors in their own right.

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[Secular Sanity]

Excellent point, C C.

[Syne]

Why does it invariably need to become a matriarchy...or black power...or eat the rich...? Invariably, whatever group claims victimhood is eager to victimize in return. You know, instead of just accepting some things as healthy consequences of natural order.

[Zinjanthropos]

Can we elect blonde runway model female leaders? Maybe we can either dispel or perpetuate a myth or two by doing so. 

Here in Ontario we voted in an openly gay female Premier in the last provincial election. Does it seem any different from a male leader, gay or otherwise? NO, and I think I echo the sentiment of many Ontarians. I will vote for her again if she chooses to run because Ms. Wynne has got the stones to take on the establishment and break stereotypes. I admire that more than billions of dollars of personal wealth.

[C C]

On one hand there seem to be sub-movements of feminism that detest generalizations (like gender typecasting) being applied in judgments about the individual and in constraining the options of the individual. Thus the aversion to there being a "feminine" or "motherhood" orientation innate in women that would make a woman leader less apt for war. (But that doesn't stop a professor from blaming ills on masculinity, since toxic "masculinity" would likewise be just another tribally dispensed concept that boys / teens are encouraged to conform to rather than being inherent in man as individual.)

Other variants, however, embrace the notion of gender (whether acquired or innate psychological characteristics) being a legit factor and influential contributer. Taking stances like the presence of female input in history would have led to more well-rounded societies and less "flawed conceptions of knowledge, knowers, objectivity, and scientific methodology".

[...Feminist epistemologists...] aim to (1) explain why the entry of women and feminist scholars into different academic disciplines, especially in biology and the social sciences, has generated new questions, theories, and methods, (2) show how gender and feminist values and perspectives have played a causal role in these transformations, (3) promote theories that aid egalitarian and liberation movements, and (4) defend these developments as cognitive, not just social, advances.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/femin...stemology/

There were traditions and doctrinal prescriptions (from society) back in the patriarchal days which spurred scientists to interpret data in ways which led to products like eugenics. Similarly, there are entrenched hypothetical pre-conditions today that may urge social and biomedical sciences to construe data on the academically approved side of politics. [As well as occasionally on the disapproved side; but the latter will receive more mainstream negative reaction to bridle it.]

Sheldon Cooper: "I think it's safe to say you're not in love with me and I'm not in love with you. And psychology has once again proved itself the doofus of the sciences." --The Intimacy Acceleration ... Big Bang Theory, Season 8, Episode 16

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[stryder]

Different gender's bring a more robust definition to the table when working together. Where as if one gender is prominent, it can lead to some avenues of consideration being missed. It might well explain why the best royalty that ruled was Kings and Queens, rather than just one or the other.

Joke quote:
Women are Optimists and Men are Pessimists. My wife for instance, is optimistic enough to spend money frivolously from our joint bank account, I however always worry about it being emptied.

[stryder]

Forbes - 2017 - Most powerful woman

This is food for thought.

[Syne]

[...Feminist epistemologists...]/

One of the most ridiculous notions of our modern era. As if ideology would ever aid in epistemological study, rather that just introduce heavy bias.
More akin to a toddler's tantrum, demanding their way, than anything remotely scientific or even intellectual.

[confused2]

When I was a lad...

If you had a problem at work the last person you would tell would be any sort of manager.

If a female had a baby she would 'leave to have a baby' and might or might not later apply for a job at the same company and would be employed (or not) depending on her value to the company. The job she left 'to have a baby' would normally have been taken and she might (or might not) be offered a job often with less status and at a lower salary than before. How unfair was that? People who left their jobs to sail round the world encountered similar discrimination in the workplace.

We never suffered from 'low morale' we just quietly looked for another job.

[Secular Sanity]

We never suffered from 'low morale' we just quietly looked for another job.

I was just thinking, C2. RP hasn’t been hanging around Sciforums lately. He likes you. You should send him an invite. I’d do it but I’m banned.