Obama: ‘Congress Would Get More Done If There Were More Women’

[robinlynne]

98. i actually agree with you. but to play devil's advocate I do want to note

that in more primitive, self governing communities, and in communities here as well, women are more often than not the leaders in many ways. I spent some time in a small village in the Amazon,
not indigenous, but stemming from indigenous. there is a community council which makes all decisions, such as whose land to till on what day. they are highly organized. they have a system whereby once a week the entire village works on one person's land together. the council is entirely run by women. That is true throughout that particular region. I was amazed. This is a society with no links (like roads) to the rest of the world. The people did not understand the notion of "
countries", for example. the women rocked! And it was absolutely accepted and normal to them that the women should make the decisions of the community.

if you look at church groups, volunteer community groups, i think you will see a lot of women step up to the plate in the community to make thing s happen. I don't know statistically, but just from personal observation, I would guess that women are more "community organizers" than men, if one sex does it more than the other. .