To be honest, I was a bit put off by the title of the event: “Learn to Lead,” which in the context of a WFWP gathering, seems a bit demeaning and, and if anything, years late in presentation. The so-called Age of Women began many years ago, so if it is necessary to actually teach women how to lead, why now? But do our bright, experienced, and spiritually savvy sisters really need to be trained in leadership skills? Were the male leaders of our movement taught how to lead before they began their important responsibilities, or were they picked for other reasons? One could reasonably argue that if the movement had installed as many women as men in leadership positions over the decades, then we would have advanced much further. In my view, it is not the women who need to learn how to lead, but rather the men who lead it. If we had good male leaders over the decades, then by now we would have far more women in top leadership positions. And who knows where we would be now.
Marta Maria de Carvalho Rodrigues
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Stephen Henkin
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To be honest, I was a bit put off by the title of the event: “Learn to Lead,” which in the context of a WFWP gathering, seems a bit demeaning and, and if anything, years late in presentation. The so-called Age of Women began many years ago, so if it is necessary to actually teach women how to lead, why now? But do our bright, experienced, and spiritually savvy sisters really need to be trained in leadership skills? Were the male leaders of our movement taught how to lead before they began their important responsibilities, or were they picked for other reasons? One could reasonably argue that if the movement had installed as many women as men in leadership positions over the decades, then we would have advanced much further. In my view, it is not the women who need to learn how to lead, but rather the men who lead it. If we had good male leaders over the decades, then by now we would have far more women in top leadership positions. And who knows where we would be now.
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