...Intorduccion Poder, mujeres y liderazgo:guía incluyente en un contexto global aborda un tema en construcción cuyos soportes teóricos, metodológicos y prácticos son ya un referente indispensable a medida que las mujeres se incorporan a puestos de poder. Presentación La participación igualitaria de la mujer en la adopción de decisiones no sólo es una exigencia básica de justicia o democracia sino que puede considerarse una condición necesaria para que se tengan en cuenta los intereses de la mujer. Sin la participación activa de la mujer y la incorporación del punto de vista de la mujer a todos los niveles del proceso de adopción de decisiones no se podrán conseguir los objetivos de igualdad, desarrollo y paz. El concepto de las mujeres poderosas no es un concepto nuevo. Es una idea que ha sido explorado desde hace siglos, incluso desde los tiempos bíblicos. Las mujeres más famosas de la historia del mundo se hicieron famosos por sus poderes. Delilah es famoso por su poder de seducción sobre Sampson, provocando su caída. Cleopatra es famosa por ser una reina poderosa y seductora de dos de los líderes de Roma, Julio César y Marco Antonio.Elizabeth Cady Stanton y Susan B. Anthony son conocidos por su poder para unir a la gente para luchar por los derechos y el sufragio de las mujeres. Y Margaret Thatcher, la 'Dama de Hierro' de Gran Bretaña, es conocido por su poder y capacidad para gobernar con éxito la Gran Bretaña, así como, si no mejor que, cualquier hombre...
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...One of those women became Israel’s first female Prime Minister: Golda Meir (“Golda Meir (1898-1978)”). In a country like Israel, where the constant threat of war or terrorism is prevalent, strong leaders were needed to safeguard the existence of a Jewish state (Sullivan and Koepp). From 1920 to 1974, Golda Meir spent decades in politics to protect the rights of Jewish refugees, worked in foreign affairs and labor, and became Israel’s first woman Prime Minister...
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...Everyone experiences adversity at some point in their lives. Some people do not believe that adversity is needed in life, and they can travel through life without any conflict. That simply is not true. Everyone will experience it. Golda Meir once said that, "You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity." Adversity is the best sparring partner because it strengthens character, helps develop humility, and teaches life lessons that cannot be learned in any other way. Through trials of adversity, character can be learned. Many parents enroll their children into karate lessons that include the event of sparring. They do this so their children can learn how to work hard, be tough, never give up and keep fighting. Those are all essential characteristics that a child needs to learn. In the quote from Golda Meir, he says that adversity is the best sparring partner. Just like sparring can teach children and adults many things, adversity will teach the most. It is inevitable and is the best way to learn. Often there is no escape from adversity and...
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...INGRID BERGMAN Ingrid Bergman was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on August 29, 1915. Her mother died when she was only two and her father died when she was 12. Ingrid Bergman was one of the greatest actresses from Hollywood's lamented Golden Era. Her natural and unpretentious beauty and her immense acting talent made her one of the most celebrated figures in the history of American cinema. Bergman is also one of the most Oscar-awarded actresses. The woman who would be one of the top stars in Hollywood in the 1940s had decided to become an actress after finishing her formal schooling. She had had a taste of acting at age 17 when she played an unaccredited role of a girl standing in line in the Swedish film Landskamp (1932). It would be three more years before she would have another chance at a film. When she did, it was more than just a bit part. The film in question was Munkbrogreven (1935), where she had a speaking part as Elsa Edlund. After several films that year that established her as a class actress, Ingrid appeared in Intermezzo (1936/I) as Anita Hoffman. Luckily for her, American producer David O. Selznick saw it and sent a representative from Selznick International Pictures to gain rights to the story and have Ingrid signed to a contract. Once signed, she came to California and starred in United Artists' 1939 remake of her 1936 film, Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939), reprising her original role. The film was a hit and so was Ingrid. Her beauty was unlike anything the movie...
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...The book, The Privilege Of Youth is a book that shows young teens readers like, The Golda Meir High School Community, the reality of being a teen going through the foster care system. It shows the real life struggles and situations of being an impoverished, and unacceptable teen in the real world. It shows the everyday life of a boy who encounter harsh conditions at school and at home. In addition,it justifies the huge significance of how his encounter with many different situations impacted his cultural identity.The book, Privilege Of Youth goes way back into the 1970’s in California. However, since Dave (The author’s biography of his teen years) continued to move through the foster care system,he repeatedly got transferred to different areas...
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...Throughout history women in most societies were considered inferior to men. It was preferred that a woman remained in the home rearing children and managing the household. This was also true in the U.S. during the 1600-1700s. Women in the U.S. were not allowed to vote, own property or even own a business on her own. It was pretty much understood during the early develop of farms in the U.S. that women were physically incapable of doing manual labor like men. The natural result of biological differences between the sexes supported the point of view that believed women were unable to compete with men at jobs that required strength and intelligence. It was believed that women are naturally more emotional and therefore less decisive than men. Many believed that they were also less intelligent and with an inferior quality of creativity by nature. Many sociologists and anthropologists maintain that various cultures throughout the world teach girls to behave according to negative stereotypes of femininity, thus keeping alive the idea that women are naturally inferior. Overtime through war, a changing job market due to the introduction of new ways to produce, the decrease in manual labor jobs, divorce and the development of women’s groups, the U.S. was to notice the impact of women in their society and make changes to better accommodate her. There were toward the end of the 1700s women were becoming more vocal about equally between the sexes. An increased in literature written by women...
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...Against all odds, oppression, torture, slavery, exile, and genocide the Jewish people defied the world’s intolerance. May 14, 1948 the state of Israel came to life, Golda Meir remembered this bittersweet hope of all Jews, “‘The dream’ had come true, but too late to save those who had perished in the Holocaust” (Hunt, et. al., 932). The year 1882, 66 years from Israel becoming a state, no Jew on earth could have ever imagined this to be true; Leon Pinsker a Ukrainian physician had only hopes of uniting his people let alone the birth of a Jewish State. The document: Leon Pinsker Calls for a Jewish State reflects the Jew’s endless struggle for survival, illustrating the dire importance of staying united, and the greater need to find a land of their own. Since the beginning of western expansion Jews had to fight against resistance in the form of hatred by others who shared the same land. Hatred is a disease, knows no bounds, and can be found in the hearts of all men; strangely however, it seems to prefer Jews. Pinsker writes this hateful intolerance “a fear of the...
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...“Feminism,” it was once said “is the radical notion that women are people.” During the Second World War women across the globe were striving to prove this, and gain their rightful place in the military. Soviet women were trailblazers during World War II; the incredible skills that these women possessed were recognized, and they were able to attain many combat positions previously reserved exclusively for men. However, The United States government was not nearly as progressive- and American women were heavily discriminated against. Women who volunteered their lives for our country were denied military a status, despite the fact that they were equally qualified and capable. Women held a variety of positions as pilots, tank commanders, medics, scouts, secret agents, and snipers (Kruper). The Soviet Union employed eight hundred thousand (800,000) women in the military during World War II, and more than three hundred fifty thousand (350,000) of those women held combat positions, Sharp-Shooting Women Best Soviet. Women were put in front-line positions, and were just as effective as men. In some cases the woman's regiments were even more effective than their male counterparts. In 1941, Aviation Group 122, was formed to put woman through a rugged six month to become fighter pilots. Out of this group three regiments were formed; all three were highly successful. The 588th night bomber aviation regiments, comprised solely of women, were know by their enemies...
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...Women Breadwinners By: Arcelia Orozco-Medina MGMT 358 – Culture & Gender Issues in Management Dr. Dolores Olson August 7, 2013 Women of Yesteryear The traditional women has always been portrayed as the home caretaker, but was this always the case. We can look into centuries of history and see women of different eras and of different ethnic backgrounds, were they a picture of the traditional woman? Let’s look at some examples; let’s turn back the clock to Egyptian times. During the 15th Century B.C. there was Hatshepsut a women of political power promoting trade and arts. It wasn’t until a later times that she received the title of Pharaoh, Queen of Egypt. She was also one of the first known finding in Egyptian history. We follow with the most famous and ambitious of all, Cleopatra. She is mostly know for her struggles to win the crown and keep her country free among other things. She was with Julius Caesar, Roman general bearing him a son. Additionally she won the protection of Rome through an affair with Mark Anthony, and had three children with him. A lesser-known fact is that Cleopatra was highly educated and possessed an impressive intellect, being a student of philosophy and international relations We move now to the Victorian times and start off with Joan of Arc. Joan came from a peasant family, became a French heroine by leading the army of Charles VII. She captured and put on trial for witchcraft...
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...* A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. – By Irish Proverb * A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done. – Anonymous * A mom's hug lasts long after she lets go. – Anonymous * A mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart a heart so large that everybody's grief and everybody's joy found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation. – By Mark Twain * A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive. – By Samuel Taylor Coleridge * A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.- By Tenneva Jordan * A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.- By Dorothy Canfield Fisher * A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled. – By Emily Dickinson * A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. – By Washington Irving * A mother understands what a child does not say. – Jewish proverb * A mother's heart is a patchwork of love. – Anonymous * A mother's love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking...
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...Helen Keller's Family Helen Adams Keller was born a healthy child in Tuscumbia, Alabama, on June 27, 1880. On her father's side she was descended from Colonel Alexander Spottswood, a colonial governor of Virginia, and on her mother's side, she was related to a number of prominent New England families. Helen's father, Arthur Keller, was a captain in the Confederate army. The family lost most of its wealth during the Civil War and lived modestly. After the war, Captain Keller edited a local newspaper, the North Alabamian, and in 1885, under the Cleveland administration, he was appointed Marshal of North Alabama. When Helen Keller Met Anne Sullivan At the age of 19 months, Helen became deaf and blind as a result of an unknown illness, perhaps rubella or scarlet fever. As Helen grew from infancy into childhood, she became wild and unruly. As she so often remarked as an adult, her life changed on March 3, 1887. On that day, Anne Mansfield Sullivan came to Tuscumbia to be her teacher. Anne was a 20-year-old graduate of the Perkins School for the Blind. Compared with Helen, Anne couldn't have had a more different childhood and upbringing. The daughter of poor Irish immigrants, she entered Perkins at 14 years of age after four horrific years as a ward of the state at the Tewksbury Almshouse in Massachusetts. She was just 14 years older than her pupil Helen, and she too suffered from serious vision problems. Anne underwent many botched operations at a young age before...
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...BECOMING AN EFFECTIVE GLOBAL LEADER (Chapter 30 of "Coaching for Leadership" Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer, 2000) Maya Hu-Chan, Jeremy Solomons, and Carlos E. Marin “To lead the people, walk behind them” (Lao-Tzu) “In a beginner’s mind, there are many possibilities. In an expert’s there are none.” (Zen Master Suzuki Roshi) Nature versus Nurture Although there may never be a definitive answer to the nature versus nurture question, most people will agree that no amount of nurturing can make someone into a global leader if he or she does not have a fundamental desire, passion, and talent to be one. And no potential leader, however naturally gifted he or she may be, can become fully realized without a tremendous amount of nurturing. Throughout childhood and adolescence, even the divinely reincarnated Dalai Lama had to undergo intense and lengthy preparation for his weighty role as the spiritual leader of Tibet. But the preparation does not stop at the onset of adulthood; in some ways, it is only just starting. Potential global leaders must continue their formal education by expanding their theoretical and technical knowledge in various arenas of higher learning, but they must also begin to live the reality of being a global leader through practical experience, particularly traveling, living and working in cultures and countries that are not familiar to them. 1 Are global leaders born? Or are they made? Is global leadership an innate competency? Or is it an acquired skill, learned...
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...0 Term Paper Discourses of Standpoint Feminism in International Relations Shipra Shukla M.Phil Student Subject: Advanced International Relations Theories Department of Political Science University of Delhi 1 1. 1 Introduction Feminism can be simply defined as the study of and movement for women not as subjects but as subjects of knowledge. During the 1980s, feminism and the role of gender have gained entry in the study of international relations. Prior to this feminism was greatly ignored. However, over the last decade, feminism has emerged as a key critical perspective within the study of international relations. The initial thrust of this critique was to challenge the fundamental biases of the discipline and to highlight the ways in which women were excluded from analyses of the state, international political economy, and international security. According to O'Callaghan (2002) feminism in international relations can be framed in two main domains. The first wave of feminist scholarship in the 1980s is now called feminist empiricism; in which international relations scholars have sought to reclaim women’s hidden voices and to expose the multiplicity of roles that women play in sustaining global economic forces and state interactions. For example, women’s participation and involvement facilitate tourism, colonialism, and economically powerful states’ domination of weak states. The maintenance of the international political economy depends upon stable political and...
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...REPORT ON THE INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON WOMEN AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT BEIJING, CHINA 9 – 11 NOVEMBER 2011 BACKGROUND International Forum on Women and Sustainable Development was organized by the All China Women’s Federation in Beijing, China. The All-China Women’s Federation (ACWF) was founded on April 3rd, 1949. It is a mass organization of Chinese women of all ethnic groups in all walks of life, striving for women’s advancement. Its mission is to represent and safeguard women’s rights and interests and to promote equality between women and men. ACWF is also a member of the National Working Committee on Women and Children under the State Council. It is in consultative status with the ECOSOC of the United Nations. INTRODUCTION Sustainable development, as a visionary development paradigm shift, represents a big step forward in the progress of human society. It demonstrates the resolve and efforts of people around the world to ensure sound development and the well-being of the current and future generations. Sustainable development can neither be achieved nor sustained without the participation of women who are an important driving force. The United Nations and member states have already initiated different kinds of activities to prepare for the Rio+20 Summit. Both sustainable development and empowerment of women are considered a priority of the United Nations in 2011. As such, it is of special significance to reflect women’s needs and concerns and heed women’s...
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...Part 1 Leadership Variables Chapters 2 and 3 Multiple Choice Questions 1. | Historically, researchers have focused upon two main theories of leadership effectiveness: _______ and ______. A. | Ancient; modern | B. | Male; female | C. | Centralized; decentralized | D. | Trait; behavior | E. | Time-sensitive; timeless | | 2. | Almost always listed as important for leadership success is/are _______. A. | Basic intelligence | B. | Clear and strong values | C. | High level of personal energy | D. | All of these | E. | Training | | 3. | In _______, a classic study of leadership _______ was conducted by _______. A. | 1989; contingencies; Ken Blanchard | B. | 1969; qualities; Peter Drucker | C. | 1949; environment; Elton Mayo | D. | 1939; behavior; Kurt Lewin | E. | None of these | | 4. | In _______, Ralph Stogdill and others at _______ evaluated leadership effectiveness based upon ______. At about the same time, _______ and others at University of Michigan studied _______ leadership. A. | 1945; Ohio State University; initiating structure and consideration; Rensis Likert; job-centered and employee-centered | B. | 1955; Stanford University; time and place; Abraham Maslow; motivation and personality | C. | 1965; Harvard University; education and experience; W. Edwards Deming; technical process and eclectic | D. | All of these | E. | None of these | | 5. | Leadership effectiveness depends upon _________ of leaders,...
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