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Wigster78
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I don't think there is any pressure on the Government to do so. America has always had male presidents and i don't think that will change unless the majority says otherwise.
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This is a good question - it certainly seems strange that the USA has not while countries such as India have. Possibly no stand-out female candidates have tried to run for President yet, or possibly the American people as a whole are still on some level uncomfortable about having a female leader, still seeing a male leader as stronger. Hopefully this may change soon though....
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I think the reason has more to do with the smaller number of women in politics than men. With a smaller group to choose from, and a majority of men forming a "boys' club" in politics, it has been very difficult for women to break through. I am interested though in the fact that Hilary Clinton is the wife of a former President. If she does succeed on becoming president, she will follow a trend by many women leaders around the world. Bby far the majority of those who have won office have been wives, widows or daughters of former leaders eg Indhira Ghandi (daughter of Jawarhalal Nehru, ) Benazir Bhutto (daughter of President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto), Corazon Aquino ( a little different in that her husband was assassinated before he could be elected president), Isabel Martínez de Perón, (widow of Juan Peron of Argentina)Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga of Sri Lanka (daughter of Solomon Bandaranaike, former Prime minister and Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the world's first female Prime Minister).
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because we live in a highly patriarchal society. this means that women are feared and are denied positions of power. lots of bad excuses are given, such as hormonal imbalances and so on... but they are not scientifically proven and are quite outlandish once thought about logically.
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Because those who vote do have some smarts........and one has not been nominated to run yet.
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We seem to be in a social counter-reformation...a social backlash against the rapid reform gains made in the last century. As such, the American public resonates a social conservatism that leans toward the tradition of patriarchy. I think we will be moving out of that soon when it comes to female politicians. However, it has been very difficult...ok, impossible...in the last several decades for a woman to get a party nomination. Some of them are even afraid to. What happened to Geraldine Ferraro wasn't pleasant. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-156414800.html
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I'd be all in favor of a woman president, but not Hitlery. She's the most divisive figure in American political history, and not because she's a woman--Elizabeth Dole wasn't. 49% of the population told Gallup they wouldn't vote for her under any circumstances, and those numbers tend to go up during a campaign. Can you imagine a president that a majority of the people angrily rejected from the get-go?!? She lies like a rug and she's as crooked as a dog's hind leg. She changes her stated positions with every poll, but--and here is the real reason Republicans hate her (millions of Democrats do, too, but for different reasons) she's a radical leftist who wants to rule, rather than govern.
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