Wednesday, April 04, 2007

[switzerland] women now control the country

Wonderful news from Switzerland, of all places:

Geneva has become the first city in Switzerland to have a parliament where women are in the majority. The result has been hailed as a major breakthrough for women in the world of Swiss politics – traditionally a male preserve. Women only got the vote nationwide in 1971.

"This event is of symbolic importance. That's to say it's the first time the 50 per cent threshold has been broken and parity has been achieved," Thanh-Huyen Ballmer-Cao, a political scientist at Geneva University, told swissinfo.

But whether the shock result in Geneva marks a sea change in the male-dominated world of Swiss politics waits to be seen. A study published earlier this year showed that despite the increase in the number of women being elected to political posts, women are less interested in politics than men.

Is this the female battle cry: "We can do anything you can, even better but we'd prefer to be clever and let you do it"? Is it better for women to dominate politics whilst men dominate business?

Can the Toynbees of the world join the Chipmunks and Becketts of the world and bring about a jolly palatable PC matriarchy? Would love to hear the female view on this. Men, it seems we are on the way out, as a species.

3 comments:

  1. Al for it, I'll be honest.Quite happy to give Women a shot at running the show.- We've had our fair share.
    And Conodoleeza Rice? You know, I think she's quite a lady.

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  2. After the bang-up job men have done running the world for the last two thousand years, I'm ready to let women give it a go.

    It can't get much worse...

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