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Excuse this hot-take, but PSA for all: If you values environmental sustainability, work on getting WOMEN INTO MORE LEADERSHIP POSITIONS. If you're still with m
by patcon 7y ago
Excuse this hot-take, but PSA for all: If you values environmental sustainability, work on getting WOMEN INTO MORE LEADERSHIP POSITIONS.
If you're still with me after the capslock... :)
We've known since the Hofstede leadership study (commissioned by IBM) that countries that skew toward feminine side of the masculity--femininity axes, are more likely to have general populations that values environmental sustainability, whereas countries that embody masculine leadership qualities value economic growth much more highly. Just google "Hofstede environmental sustainability femininity". It's been replicated in many studies. Some examples:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327419590_The_Effects_of_Hofstede's_Cultural_Dimensions_on_Pro-Environmental_Behaviour_How_Culture_Influences_Environmentally_Conscious_Behaviour https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327419590_The_Effec...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/csr.1329 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/csr.1329
This is reproduced over and over. The key to environmental sustainability is not an invention or a product, it's a reorienting of leadership away from the risk-taking, growth-oriented masculine styles of leadership. That's not to say men can't contribute to that work (the leadership style is not only accessible to women) but that there's less teaching/re-education to do if we accept the best approach to be GETTING WOMEN IN POWER.
Nothing else you build or work on will contribute to reorienting ourselves away from this growth-mode death sentence (nor will it do it in such a sustainable way) than SUPPORTING FEMALE LEADERSHIP in corporate and government institutions. That's where the sustainable recalibration will take place.
I'm grateful for any consideration you might give this.
- patientplatypus 7y agoPersonally, I think this is gross. So I should be excluded from a leadership position because I have a penis? Yuck.
- krapp 7y agoWhy did you apparently read "getting women into more leadership positions" and interpret it as "getting women into all leadership positions?" For that matter, why did you read an argument predicated on masculine versus feminine leadership styles as they relate to environmentalism and social empathy (which can be reasonably argued against) and reduce it to mere exclusionism based on genitalia?
- kbos87 7y agoI can completely get on board with “reorienting leadership away from risk-taking, growth-oriented styles of leadership”, but injecting gender into something that isn’t about gender leaves a bad taste in my mouth. This sort of “activism” probably alienates more people than any good that might come out of it.
- dangerface 7y agoThanks for backing up your argument with evidence, it's a lot easier to consider feminist arguments when they are substantiated.
- frobozz 7y agohttps://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10426/theresa_may/maidenhead/votes#environment https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10426/theresa_may/maidenhe... Some excerpts on the PM's voting record on environmental issues: > Generally voted against measures to prevent climate change > Generally voted for lower taxes on fuel for motor vehicles > Generally voted against greater regulation of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to extract shale gas > Has never voted on financial incentives for low carbon emission electricity generation methods This is not about male/female.
- doingmyting 7y agoI can understand working towards having leadership positions reflecting more of the breakdown of society in terms of gender, race etc. It promotes diversity of ideas and inclusion. However there is nothing I can see that dictates that simply having a vagina between your legs somehow makes you value and consider environmental impacts more. Sorry but no, just no!!!