Are women better in politics?

[Something completely different]

So South Korea has elected it`s first woman president today!

She is the former head of the South Korean konservative party, she is the daugther of the former South Korean Dictator Park Chung-hee and in the election she has beaten Moon Jae.

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/pa...73853.html

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Geun-hye


Germany has been ruled by a woman chancelor for almoust 8 years now, and I oftern read in German newspapers that as a woman she works in office with far more reason, than with impulse.
The upcoming election here has already been named by some papers as "testosteron versus reason". And generaly speaking , women in politics are on the rise here.

From what I have heared so far in the news, Brasil is doing fine with Dilma Rousseff, Denmark is doing outstandlingly well with Helle Thorning Schmidt aswell as Austrialia is doing fine with Julia Gillard.
Only Argentinia with Christina Kirchner is the country with a female politician as head of the goverment where things aren`t running that well.

I dont know how it is abroard, but it seems like alot of people here in Germany come to believe that women are more capable to do better work as politicians since "they are more reasonable and their thinking is not that influenced by testosteron".

What do you think?

[Dee Dee Ramone]

I don't care, because it's nonsense.

They are both capable of managing the job.

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Does 'no' mean men are better in politics?

[Something completely different]

nope, it simply means that women arent better.

[Dee Dee Ramone]

Confusing!

I mean, shouldn't thr poll include an option;

'Men are better in politics'

[Anomalocaris]

The evidence you offer might suggest women politicians make better administrators, but they say nothing about whether women politicians are better politicians.

The fact that politicians are overwhelmingly male suggest men are in fact better politicians than women. The first goal of politics is not to run the country well. It is to get a shot at running the country at all. In this men seem to succeed far more than women.

[TaraJo]

Tricky question. My answer is 'fuck arbritrary gender roles.' I mean, how does a testosterone filled penis somehow make someone govern better or worse? Women are just as capipable as men in politics and women are just as likely as men to fuck up, too.

[Great Ape]

I don't care and I live under a rock.

[Kousbroek]

Women are born for politics imo.

[cratehorus]

it depends what country sometimes women get no respect

example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nte1UtRww_k

[5thHorseman]

Definitely not. They spend to much time rethinking decisions and picking what shoes to wear on the way to parliament/senate/congress.

Women gonna women......