Re: Socialism and Women's Leadership (was China Drafts Law to Boost Unionsand End Labor Abuse)

[Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/14/06, Doyle Saylor <doylesaylor@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Greetings Economists,
> I don't think women's participation in Nepal or elsewhere is directly
> addressing the problem of women's leadership.  Why not?  What is being
> elided?

Gender relations and family structures in China, Cuba, the USSR,
Eastern European states, etc. (and probably North Korea, too, though I
know little about this dimension of the country) under socialism were
(and in the case of Cuba still are) far less patriarchal than in
Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Liberia, Mozambique, Pakistan, the
Philippines, etc., and yet they didn't elevate women to the highest
office except in Yugoslavia.  Socialist movements and states have
always encouraged and welcomed women's participation in the rank and
file.  They just have never promoted women's political leadership at
the highest level, it seems to me.
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