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- From: zebee@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Zebee Johnstone)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: Women and Men Witches
- Date: 19 Nov 92 00:46:32 GMT
- Organization: The University of Adelaide
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- holzman@fnalno.fnal.gov (Daniel B. Holzman) writes:
-
- >Gender does not determine whether someone will be hierarchical in orientation
- >or not. To the extent that it does, it is the result of socialization, not
- >inherent to the gender, and not universal to the gender, even in people of this
- >society. Men are capable of non-hierarchical relationship, women are capable
- >of hierarchical relationships. Thus, the solution to the problem of our
- >society is not in changing who the focus is on, but in how each individual
- >chooses to interact.
-
- Wholehearted agreement. YOu mentioned Margaret Thatcher, who is an obvious case
- of a woman who adpoted "male" strategies to succeed in a male-dominated
- area.
-
- Many management studies have concluded that women in managerial roles
- do not tend to use significantly different management methods than
- their male counterparts, but I don't know of any which analyse whether
- they have been socialised out of any "different" tendencies.
-
- THe people to look at in this contxt are perhaps those women who have been
- ordained into mainstream Christian churches. Has being in a male-oriented
- religion affected how they act? DO they find themselves doing things
- differently to their male counterparts?
-
- Seeing as the ordinatin of women is a big thing here at the moment, there
- have bene interviews with some of those who are waiting to be ordained in the
- Anglican church. While they are extremely reluctant to speak (in case
- it jeopardises something), they seem to think that it may help their
- parishoners, as many of them are women, to talk to a woman, but that is
- also a socialisation thing. The fact of being female doesn't seem
- to change their relationship with their God.
-
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