In which country are nearly half the Parliament and half privately owned businesses run by WOMEN?

Dover

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Sat Sep-20-08 10:07 PM
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In which country are nearly half the Parliament and half privately owned businesses run by WOMEN?

Edited on Sat Sep-20-08 10:17 PM by Dover

Of course it's not the U.S. We are waaaay behind, perhaps more because we do not encourage/value
the feminine in general nor changes to our current system and infrastructure that would accommodate it...which inevitably forces women to wear a man's shirt and tie to be in the game. It's a bad, unnatural fit. What would a truly feminized system bring?

Perhaps we can look to Rwanda for those answers. YES!

Rwanda, where, 14 years after a horrific massacre left nearly one million people dead, women make up nearly half of parliament

A wonderful program on NOW about the new role of women.

Women, Power and Politics
http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/437/index.html

The scene of women debating with men in the Rwandan Parliament is priceless!

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jkshaw

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Sat Sep-20-08 10:10 PM
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1. Interesting!

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I Have A Dream

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Sat Sep-20-08 10:27 PM
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2. Wow, I have to say that I wouldn't have guessed that if you had given...

me 100 chances. Good for Rwanda!

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Dover

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Mon Sep-22-08 05:22 AM
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3. One of the women in government says this was intentionally done

by the leadership there, as they knew women were better equipped to heal the country and bring it together.

No such wisdom in these parts, but neither do we share so traumatic a history. Rwanda and other parts of the world have suffered unspeakable violence, inhumanity, betrayal and trauma which the U.S. has not fully experienced. We also still have many illusions to shed about ourselves and the rest of the world before we can get real.
They look at our system and find it immature, frivolous and inauthentic. They haven't had that "luxury".

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