User:Vtaylor/CE Women's Leadership

Women leaders and leadership

Leadership and management

Barriers

• the most important factor limiting women is their lack of education
• a woman’s place is in the home, women should focus on caring for their husbands and children
• discouraged from an active life outside the home
• women accept a lower status or feel powerless to rise above their current station in life
• belief that men possess “hpoun,” a power derived from meritorious actions in past lives (Burma)
• militaristic culture many regard as inherently male-centered

Women as Mobilizers

• Analysis of the styles of great Women Leaders - Thatcher, Gandhi, Meir

Articles

• Women in the movement
  A handful of prominent female activists have made a significant mark on Burmese dissident politics, but true equality of the sexes remains elusive. Three days after Cyclone Nargis struck southwestern Burma on May 2-3, social activist Phyu Phyu Thin bravely came out of hiding to help victims of the storm.