The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In some ways, privileged women who are closer to power wind up being able to exert their influence in ways that change public policy in ways that women with less power don't have access to.
I don't know if I have any particular views about women in positions of power, though I do think it's more difficult for women, particularly in a Medieval setting. They have the additional problem that they're a woman and people don't want them in a position of power in an essentially patriarchal society.
America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.
The government must give men and women without power a real say over what happens to them, and the means of engaging in a participative, invigorated and living democracy.
I hate to say there are female and male ways of dealing with power, because I think each of us has a male and a female part. But based on my own experience, women will tend to be inclusive, to reach out more, to care a little more.
Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.
Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.
Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged.
The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.