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出典: Game Catalog 1983

WHEN THE glass ceiling BREAKS

Maggie Thatcher has a lot to resolve for.

The former (and very first female) Prime Minister of The uk from 1979 to 1990 have also been the longest-serving PM in modern times. Revered and reviled for her tough position and unbending will, she epitomised what people did not like about women in power. Tough. Egotistic. Unsympathetic. And yet, she was undoubtedly successful.

What most people don't consider is that Mrs Thatcher (it’s doubtful she'd have been happy with “Ms”) had merely a male construct of authority and power on which in order to model herself.

You could name on one hand the number of women who had been leaders of their country (without having to be born into the position) before Thatcher. The only real model of how to lead a country was written by men over enturies.

And men are dissimilar to women.

Yes, Maggie was a forerunner. She broke through "the glass ceiling", that metaphorical barrier that tantalised women and kept them from jobs of real power. Called “The Iron Lady”, Margaret challenged the public’s (unrealistic?) expectation that a lady in power would have the heart. There has never recently been a question that a man needs to have a heart in the exact same circumstances.

Thatcher was tough and also unwavering … just like the majority of man political leaders around the world and through history.

In the 21st century we have a growing body of female heroines in leadership roles that are redefining the very concept of leadership. Precisely because we have much more women in powerful jobs than ever before. As a consequence, we are able to investigate the ‘rules’ of what it is to be a leader. Margaret Thatcher did not have in which luxury. She was a trailblazer and there was enormous pressure to execute … because she was a woman.

Those women have got to in which position because other ladies, like Maggie Thatcher, have gone before to blaze the trail.

As with every other trailblazer, it is expected that others who come after will certainly improve and do things differently. Yet, if it were not for those who go before, the rest of us would take longer to move forward.

It has to be remembered that women only have been in the workforce within large numbers since the late 1940’s. Within the 1950’s we were encouraged to step out of the particular workforce and go back to become dutiful wives, mothers, daughters.

We all know how hard it is to set something back in its container after we’ve taken it out.

And so in the 1960’s women were ‘liberated’ and also the concept of a working life for women, even a career, was made achievable. (There are notable exceptions such as when one had to step down if one became married, and definitely pregnant).

So, bear in mind that women have only 50 years of serious labor force participation and the growth had been rapid to the point where few, if any, occupations are definitely out-of-bounds. Women have raced up the leadership step ladder over the past twenty years and now we have risen participation at the top echelons of firms and politics although Table roles are still under-represented by women.

Much of this is thanks to females like Maggie Thatcher.

Politics aside, adore her or loath her, she was a feminist by the girl very exemplar. She, and others such as her, made it possible for women right now to ignorantly say, “I’m not a feminist and I don’t have confidence in feminism”. The only reason they have the liberty to think that their role like a fire-fighter or a senior manager is “the norm” and totally on merit happens because women like Thatcher went through hard yards and stood up against the tide to normalise women’s experiences nowadays.

Maggie broke the Glass Ceiling. Doing that takes an audio sense of self.