Woman Power

Forty+ years ago, women started to enter the workforce in large numbers. I always thought it would take about 20-30 years for them to begin to make impact in the way work and politics played out.  I became disheartened when I realized it would take much longer.  Recently, I think I have seen some light at the end of the tunnel.  

Just the other day, a woman reporter quit her anchor job on a particular network because she did not like the propagandizing that was a daily part of the network's news. I had never seen a woman take such a public stand in the workplace and I'm not sure if I've ever seen any men do it.  

In a second recent case, 17 of 20 female members of the U.S. Senate voted for a bill adamantly supporting women in the military from the abuse that has come upon them for reporting rape.

As I see it, these women are making changes in the consciousness of American thinking.  They are introducing female values to a previously hard-fast and long-held male viewpoint.  Until now, the successful women in politics and the corporate world have had to react to circumstances the way their male counterparts did just in order to gain acceptance.  Maybe that is changing.  It's time.