Are female politicians better than male?
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COMENIUS PROJECT 2012-2014
ITIS ‘’E.Majorana’’Cassino
30Mar2014 – 04Apr2014Estonian meeting
ITIS ‘’E.Majorana’’ Cassino
A question that has been generating plenty of arguements and discussions for a long time:
« Are female politicians better than male? »
Let’s see what the Italian students know and think about that!
« A women’s strenght comes from something that psycology cannot explain. »
- Oscar Wilde
In Italy, women had to fight a long and hard war to get the same rights that men have.They got the right to vote in 1946 and it sounds like aparadox because they had to fight to get something that theyshould have always had! Right now, in Italy, we have a lawthat establishes the ‘pink quotas’, that are the minimumnumber of women that must be present in our politic life.
A little bit of history
This year, Premier Matteo Renzi announced Friday that his new cabinet would be made up of 16 ministers, half of whom are women - the first time parity between the sexes has been achieved in an Italian executive. Italy's new PM will have to prove his changes are more than cosmetic and create real equality – and real jobs – in the country.
Some psycologists said that female politicians are better than male because it’s hard for a woman to be successful as a
politician but that little number of women that can be this way are very good at what they do.
We can take as examples Queen Elizabeth I, Margaret Thatcher and, more recently, Angela Merkel. They all have proven to be
highly competent, highly effective leaders, and they all had significant impacts on their countries.
Some studies have shown that women tend to consider their personal opinion, even when it is requested to be impartial,
more than men do!
They are also less inclined to project themselves and their own will onto the decision-making process.
Our solution:
ITIS ‘’E.Majorana’’Cassino
This debate would have no end because both men and women have
plenty of pros and cons but we like to think that this is the correct answer to
that question: « Intelligent people make better politicians than
men and women! »Gender is not important when it comes to actions: a good
person who makes good choices is going to do good things for the world.