tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22854375.post2087619670324096625..comments2023-09-19T07:26:40.907-05:00Comments on The beginning of spring: A trifectamashenka@dchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08480016471351240346noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22854375.post-67489669799130215732007-11-29T15:28:00.000-05:002007-11-29T15:28:00.000-05:00Hey Eli--knew I could get a comment out of you on ...Hey Eli--knew I could get a comment out of you on this one! I think both 1 and 2 are possible, but crudely put, will get cured with time (unless in the meantime backlashes happen and women do not have the opportunity to "ride out" the wave). <BR/><BR/>The point you make in 3 is intriguing, though, especially the part about whether women themselves subconsciously express that same bias and division--vis-a-vis themselves, let alone vis-a-vis other women. <BR/><BR/>So in the spirit of Seth Roberts's self-experimentation <A HREF="http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/" REL="nofollow">principle</A>, I suggest we start trying it out ourselves ...mashenka@dchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08480016471351240346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22854375.post-11661635510383649522007-11-29T08:25:00.000-05:002007-11-29T08:25:00.000-05:00I had a nice email response going to you, but in t...I had a nice email response going to you, but in the amount of time it took me to get it together you had already blogged about it, so I think I'll make my comments public. The slate article resonated on three levels:<BR/><BR/>1. Is it possible that the level of dissastisfaction is not in itself an indicator that more people are dissastisified but that, as an outcome of more women in government, freedom of expression also increased, which meant that a greater portion of people (i.e. women) in those villages were expressing their feelings for the first time?<BR/><BR/>2. Change management and the cycles/spirals of denial/resistance/exploration/acceptance. When process/systems/leadership/anything really changes, people cycle through these feelings and in three of those for cycles, they will feel and express dissastisfaction. Unfortunately, without a framework to put that dissastisfaction within, we see it simply as dissastisfaction, and often unwarrented dissastisfaction at that.<BR/><BR/>3. Bias. There is no getting around the fact that there are subtle biases within everyone -- the MIT study around race and ethnicity is a scary experiment into how even the most tolerant people have accepted stereotypes into their psyche. This is so very apparent with female leadership. I have to wonder though what would happen if women themselves were less divided in their sense of self, and more united in creating something positive -- could we faster overcome these stereotypes?Eli Stefanskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18407613066783767800noreply@blogger.com