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“Women in power are seen as breaking down barriers, or alternatively as taking something to which they are not quite entitled.”
― Women & Power: A Manifesto
― Women & Power: A Manifesto
“How have we learned to look at those women who exercise power, or who try to? What are the cultural underpinnings of misogyny in politics or the workplace, and its forms (what kind of misogyny, aimed at what or whom, using what words or images, and with what effects)? How and why do the conventional definitions of ‘power’ (or for that matter of ‘knowledge’, ‘expertise’ and ‘authority’) that we carry round in our heads exclude women?”
― Women & Power: A Manifesto
― Women & Power: A Manifesto
“Putting it bluntly, having women pretend to be men may be a quick fix, but it doesn’t get to the heart of the problem.”
― Women & Power: A Manifesto
― Women & Power: A Manifesto
“if women are not perceived to be fully within the structures of power, surely it is power that we need to redefine rather than women?”
― Women & Power: A Manifesto
― Women & Power: A Manifesto
“We have to be more reflective about what power is, what it is for, and how it is measured. To put it another way, if women are not perceived to be fully within the structures of power, surely it is power that we need to redefine rather than women?”
― Women & Power: A Manifesto
― Women & Power: A Manifesto
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