…it would probably be pretty much the same as it is now because the personality traits shared by big bosses and uberleaders are not gender specific.

Don’t people GET that by saying Women are better leaders because they’re more in touch with their emotions than men are, they are being sexist.

I’m not getting into ‘male/female brain types’, the place where potentially useful science meets gender socialisation and cultural constructs. I just felt the need to say SOMETHING on the subject after reading this in the July 2009 issue of Marie Claire as part of an article called Could women rescue the world?

Visualise Cheryl Cole, Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, Victoria Beckham and Cate Blanchett all sitting round the cabinet table. What would they say?

They would probably say We’re 2 ’singers’, a tv presenter, an actress and the wife of the president of the USA. We aren’t politicians. What the hell are we all doing sitting round the cabinet table in the first place?

This would all happen after they oust the current leaders of world politics – Robbie Williams, Jerry Springer, Denis Thatcher (ok, he might be dead but you get my point), Duncan from Blue and Keanu Reeves.

The people actually sitting round the cabinet table are POLITICIANS. Regardless of their gender, they are still politicians.

If we lived in a society where people ran countries (or companies) instead of there always being the male/female divide, the people stamping their feet and demanding equality while vomiting mars and venus bullshit all over the place might actually find that they have less to stamp their feet about.

I get that The Big Question section in Marie Claire perhaps isn’t the font of all serious journalism. I like Marie Claire. The models in their Beauty section have skin texture and that matters to me.

Plus, I would rather live in a world where someone can spout sexist crap under the guise of progress than in a world where opinions were censored.