Greetings Economists, On Oct 14, 2006, at 10:23 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
why socialist states and movements have had only a few women leaders, fewer than one would expect, when women have managed to rise to the top in a number of capitalist states, even ones that are poor or on the Right where one might not have expected them to do so.
Doyle; Well I think the obvious point in most cases is that family connection in narrow hierarchies in capitalism presents opportunities to some women. In Socialist States the question of emotion connection work is not addressed on the mass scale. Intimacy being another term is left to the private home situation to be resolved as needs to be met. Therefore the masses of women are enslaved by double duty work. By direct emotion ties to family. Which we all like. Enslaved or not in any case, emotion work is not understood in Socialist organization The model is socialism in historical structures is more intellectual work, or text based detachment from the problem of social emotion connection. For example, while many socialist more or less have been for women's lib, they really have not gone into the details of sexuality in order to consider the large scale state based implications of emotion connections. The problem of course is how little we still know of how the brain produces knowledge about intimate social connection to a mass process of equalization of connection. Doyle
