Just Thinking.....

I am guessing almost no one reads my blog, so I am not as afraid to post this... but I always had this question at the back of my head. This is a little off topic about what we are talking about in class now, but I was always curious about this. So my question/ realization is this: There is now talk of a woman possibly in the future being president. This is a HUGE deal in the United States, but anywhere else in the world (for the most part), women have been president. Why is this?! And I had many guesses to why this may be, but I would like to ask someone who knows a lot about women studies, or some other subject that could help analyze this question. Women are capable of being president, so what is wrong with the United States? I just found this article about this question... http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/19/60minutes/rooney/main1513207.shtml < That was from a 60 minutes episode, and one of the things in the article talks about the population dealing with the reasoning behind not having a female as president. There are more women in the world than men... so he suggests that women aren't voting for women. I can see how this could be a good reasoning, but at the same time I disagree. There are many women who probably don't vote, and many in the world don't know a lot, or don't care enough about politics to vote. So then that already decreases the number of voters anyway. Although times now are changing, men have been the ones who were more educated, so very few women could vote... making the number of voters even lower. Of course now, more women have become educated and are becoming more part of the government, so I am sure that the time for a women president will come soon. But I just thought this was an interesting thing to think about. And I am glad to know that other people in the world have thought about it too!