Naisten ja miesten johtamiset

Eurotopics- uutiskirjeessä raportoidaan portugalilaisen Publico-lehdessä ilmestynyttä Joseph Nyen haastattelua, jossa hän tutkiskelee naisten ja miesten johtamistyyliä.

"Joseph Nye on female and male leadership styles
The qualities of a leader by no means determined by gender, but the world would be a better place with more women in leading positions, US political scientist Joseph Nye observes in the daily Público: "Leaders should be viewed less in terms of heroic command than as encouraging participation throughout an organization, group, country, or network. Questions of appropriate style - when to use hard and soft skills - are equally relevant for men and women, and should not be clouded by traditional gender stereotypes. In some circumstances, men will need to act more 'like women'; in others, women will need to be more 'like men.' The key choices about war and peace in our future will depend not on gender, but on how leaders combine hard- and soft-power skills to produce smart strategies. Both men and women will make those decisions. But [Harvard psychologist Steven] Pinker is probably correct when he notes that the parts of the world that lag in the decline of violence are also the parts that lag in the empowerment of women." (09/02/2012) "

"Harvardin Steven Pinker on todennäköisesti oikeassa huomioidessaan, että niissä osissa maailmaa, missä väkivalta ei vähenemässä on myöskin ongelmia naisten voimallistamisen kanssa."