Just
had a a very interesting session with a speaker from The Impact Center.
He spoke about the Gender Intelligence. It analyses how men and women
brains operate and think and how this affects their decision making and
their orientation. Very interesting topic that I would like to read more
about. Then we met with ladies representing EMILY'S List, which is a
democrat organization, Women Campaign Fund/She Should Run a non-partisan
organization and National Women Political Caucus, a multi-partisan
organization. They all work in encouraging women to run for office and
operate differently, whether by raising funds or raising awareness or
identify women who have the skills to run for office and empower her to
run elections. The following is all new to me: There is some sort of a
pact between both Republican and Democrat Women candidates not to
counter attack each other in elections campaigns. There is also a higher
awareness in standing up to sexism towards women candidates running for
office. In the US, there is something called the "Independent
Expenditure" also called "Outstanding Spending" that is used to run
negative ads/campaigns against opponents. The Law btw, considers this
activity as an act of freedom of speech and is not wronged. Quota System
is very debatable in the US, and if it is applied, it will not be
addressed in favor of women, but rather in favor of different races
existing in the US.
Moushira Saleh
Washington DC
21 march 2013
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