If Women Ruled the World - Sheila Ellison (ed.) - Part 4

If Women Ruled the World - Sheila Ellison (ed.)

2017 Reading Challenge - Day 111

  April 21, 2017 

Book 32 - If Women Ruled the World -
How to Create the World We Want to Live In
Sheila Ellison (ed.) (2004)
 Part 4 - pages 131-173
Reading Time - 45 minutes

The stories expand into the world of Business. Some of the ideas in here are great. We'd create a community of support, of mentors. We'd pave the way for the women who follow us  and make it easier for them to move up in the world. We would treat female athletes the same as male athletes. And... we'd have more women conductors. I never really noticed this... or maybe I did... but there really aren't  lot of female conductors out there. We're talking orchestra conductors here... what's up with that? Are men the only ones who can interpret a musical piece and lead an orchestra? Reading this book, I see that we are really in a transition still... going from a world run by men, ruled by men... to one in which there is more of a balance. It is no wonder that the Earth is in such poor shape given our history. Somehow with men, it always seems like it has to be better, higher, more, bigger... I wonder sometimes at women's sport even... why can't we have a sport that is cooperative rather than competitive? Why does the goal always have to be who crossed the finish line first? Why can't it be who helped whom cross the finish line? Have we bought into that male idea that first is best? That bigger is best? That more is better? Maybe there is another way? But we'd have to let go of the competition to find out.