UNIT D: BLOG 30

BLOG 30: Women Leaders

In the first video the Common Wealth club met during Women History month. The panel we are meeting is made up of several powerful women that are leaders in their field. Cindy Chavez who was Vice Mayor, severed two term on city counsel, was a director of education, budge and quality aid, taught politics,and more. Next was Norane Heritan who worked for over 25 years in with technology center and raised millions of dollars, has an MBA, has been founding president of programs and organizations. Debra Roade is one of the top leaders in ethics and law, leader of Stanford Center of Ethics. Becky Morgan president of Morgan Family Foundation, youth programs, and education, has Bachelors and M.A. These are only a few of these women's accomplishments just to show who successful and great leaders they are.

This panel was put together to show how far women have came in being leaders. The problem with women's leadership is that the problem is far from solved. Women have increased the number of leaders as the panel shows. That women can be powerful and successful leaders.

Conventional people state that leaders are powerful, strong, hard on others, aggressive, and not weak or passive. These are all of the qualities that we have always used to describe males. Women in the past were seen as passive, emotional, nurturing, weak, and not powerful. So, women women started to take these leadership roles they were going against the norms and people were not excepting them. Women were acting outside of their original roles, not though of as leaders, and were not taken as seriously. The first video that we watch of the panel shows how women are breaking into this field and are powerful, just and great leaders that are really making a difference.

Behavior for women as leaders is going against how they traditionally acted in their "norms" or what people thought was normal. These women are acting out of the roles ans taking on more masculine and powerful traits to take these leaderships roles. There are many positive outcomes that have comes out of women becoming leaders in our society. Women are now taking more jobs, they are being seen in a different light, they are being took more seriously. they are being listened to, they are powerful, the are making everyone equally and most of all helping not only their gender, but helping everyone. In there roles women are not only praised for what they do, but there are still negative aspects that come out of women becoming leaders. These women are seen as harsh, not feminine, aggressive, having tempers, and rude among other things. If a man was in there same position would would just be seen as powerful and a good leader, but because of that double standard women are being looked at differently. It is the fact that women are not acting in their role and taking a stand that other people look at them negatively. They look at them negatively because they are not acting in their roles, but this is not their role anymore. We are beyond this point I think and we are all equal and should be treated as such.

These expectations are stereotypes. I do not think they are just like them, but I think they way some people think and how society as traditional seen men and women is stereotyping to the T. A Stereotyping is defining who someone by a certain trait and not by their individual characteristics. This is judging someone before you get to know who they actually are. So if you were to judge a women and say she is weak, passive and not a leader before you even know absolutely anything about her or if you say all women are not good leaders; that is stereotyping. I think they way that we have put people into categories in the past is stereotyping and is horrible.