Open your eyes to female leadership
To say that women are irrational and unreliable workers is outrageous. It is not only prejudiced and stereotypical, it is also inaccurate.
Women, after centuries of oppression, have now risen not only in the work force but in every imaginable field. For example, at Fairfield University each year more and more women are being accepted, creating a disproportion of 59 percent female students and 41 percent male students, according to collegeboard.com.
For examples of rational, brilliant and successful women, you need not look further than the female professors on campus, such as Iris Bork-Goldfield, Jocelyn Boryczka and Margaret Zowine among many others. In the political arena there are also numerous examples of women leaders: former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell and President of Chile Michelle Bachelet.
In regard to the workforce, the U.S. Department of Labor states: “For persons aged 16 to 19, men represent 51 percent [of workers] and women represent 49 percent.”
This is the only major age group where men outnumbered women.
Women, like many other once-marginalized groups, are now taking advantage of the numerous opportunities available to them.
According to Fortune magazine, one out of the top 50 companies has a female CEO; this would have been inconceivable 60 years ago and yet it is reality now. Women have made great strides since the 19th amendment in 1920 and will continue to do so.
This should not become an argument of whether women are better than men, but rather a realization that women are just as capable of being professors, running countries and heading corporations as men.
In regards to the degrading, stereotypical, prehistoric and inaccurate comments made by Mr. Stanczyk, all that I have to say is that I hope he is lucky enough not get a female boss upon his graduation because I doubt she will share his opinions about who is supposed to get the coffee.
Sincerely, Cristina Banahan ’11, president of the Vagina Warriors
Stanczyk stuck in a time warp
To the Editor,
Although I realize that the “He Said/She Said” column is written in jest, I found this past week’s piece not only offensive, but also a poor reflection on the quality of The Mirror and the journalistic abilities of its contributors.
As a female member of corporate America, working for a female boss, you might imagine that I have a few objections to the hollow and downright idiotic claims made in the most recent “He Said” column.
I come from a family with a mother who not only worked full time but also managed to raise three children.
As far as corporate America is concerned, one only has to read the paper to realize that Wall Street is currently on its knees thanks to some very poor investment choices, many of those choices made by men, with what is referred to as a clear “cohesive” thought process. So much for “hedging their bets.”
Women are inferior because of their “irrational thoughts?” It seems that in this case, irrational thought has gotten the best of the columnist; in my book, arguments with mommy and medieval science lessons don’t really cut it in the clear cohesive thought arena.
In a jumbling and extremely clumsy effort to re-establish some kind of masculine bravado, this article has done just the opposite. I beg the author of this column: Please get in your time machine and head back to 1955.
Sincerely, Alexandra Wilson ’07
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