On 10/14/06, Doyle Saylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>
