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

[Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/14/06, Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Let's keep observation of empirical facts separate from attempts (a) to
> explain those facts and (b) attempts to change those facts. Facts don't
> explain themselves nor (unexamined) reveal the social relations behind
> the facts.

I suggested to Doug:

On 10/14/06, Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> (also,
> it's possible that social democrats are worse than liberals and
> conservatives in promotion of female political leadership to the
> highest level, though I have yet to compute this).

Here's another interesting fact.  Among the most consistently social
democratic countries of the world has been Sweden.  There has been no
female head of state in Sweden either:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Sweden>.

Could it be that socialists are worse than social democrats, and
social democrats are worse than liberals and conservatives, when it
comes to the promotion of female political leadership at the highest
level?
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Yoshie
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