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Gender and politics is the focus of the journals Politics & Gender [15] and the European Journal of Politics and Gender. Gender and politics is also the title of a book series, Gender and Politics, which launched in 2012 and published dozens of volumes over the next several years. [2]
The general status of women in a country does not predict if a woman will reach an executive position since, paradoxically, female executives have routinely ascended to power in countries where women's social standing lags behind men's. [17] Women have long struggled in more developed countries to become president or prime minister.
In other words, the question of how women musicians fit into traditional music history was now being asked. [236] Through the 1980s and 1990s, this trend continued as musicologists like Susan McClary , Marcia Citron and Ruth Solie began to consider the cultural reasons for the marginalizing of women from the received body of work.
Women make up 51 percent of the U.S. population. And though we are by no means a monolith — in fact, we fall into every ethnic, socioeconomic, religious and ideological group — we have historically been underrepresented politically. This underrepresentation makes our political participation even more imperative.
Women in Ancient Greece wore himations; and in Ancient Rome women wore the palla, a rectangular mantle, and the maphorion. [ 54 ] The typical feminine outfit of aristocratic women of the Renaissance was an undershirt with a gown and a high-waisted overgown, and a plucked forehead and beehive or turban-style hairdo.
But despite relatively greater freedom of movement for Spartan women, their role in politics was the same as Athenian women. [17] Plato acknowledged that extending civil and political rights to women would substantively alter the nature of the household and the state. [21]
Because, regardless of their politics or place, those women have heard the same thing, or a version of it, many times before." [4] Heidi Stevens of the Chicago Tribune commented, "Three little words that women can draw on for decades to come, when something needs to be said and, darn it, we plan to say it. When we're being talked over in meetings.
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