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Political Analysis & Women In Politics
By Gauthier Saintilus

I want to give some hints to the media about political analysis and women in politics.

This document could help motivate politicians, voters, and students who are reluctant to vote in the Democratic presidential elections.

Political analysis: The process used to discover the reasons why a given political phenomenon occurs.

Systematic analysis does not require leaning any new languages or thought processes-quite the contrary.

The fundamentals of political analysis are very similar to the ways we solve problems or make decisions in every day life.

Most analytic questions concern relationships between two or more phenomena.

For example, we have considered whether there is a relationship between educations and voting-whether people with more education are more apt to vote than those with less education.

If we have reasons to think this is so, we can turn the question into a positive statement: "Highly educated people are more apt to vote than those with less education." (Can you think why this is a logical or reasonable statement to make?) We do not know whether the statement is true, but we are proposing or hypothesizing that it is for purposes of carrying out research.

Specifically, we are proposing that two factors-education and voting-are related to each other.

This statement asserts that education and voting are positively associated: The more education people have the more likely they are to vote.

Hypothesis (Proposition): A tentative assumption, subject to testing and proof.

In political science, the most common and useful hypotheses and propositions are those that assert that two or more things tend to be associated with each other in some specified manner.

Let's talk about women in politics: The small number of women in politics is attributable, by and large, to socialization patterns rather than overt sex discrimination.

Political parties are anxious to recruit workers, whatever their sex, and therefore certainly do not formally exclude women.

There is little evidence of noteworthy voter antagonism to women candidates for public office.

One comparative study of men and women candidates in the same British constituencies indicated that a woman Labor candidate would win as many votes as a male candidate and that a woman conservative candidate might receive about 200 fewer votes than a man. Based in this founding, we have an idea about Hillary Rodham Clinton who has strengthened her position as the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in a tight three-way contest with Barack Obama and John Edwards.

A new AP- poll shows Clinton ahead of Obama, her closest rival, by more than 20 points-46 percent to 25 percent.

The rest of the field is in single digit.

Political reticence is only manifestations of the passive social roles prescribed for women.

Socialization in the home, among peers, and at school has traditionally emphasized the norms of marriage, childbearing, and homemaking for women.

Girls have learned to define their roles in society as housewives and mothers rather than as doctors, merchants, and politicians.

Many have learned from their mothers to leave politics to men. The resulting pattern is described by one French analyst who argues that women "have the mentality of minor in the fields and, particularly in politics, they usually accept paternalism on the part of men.

Nowadays, I noticed that growing numbers of women are rebelling against these traditional role definitions and insisting upon recognition of their rights to political and social involvement on an equal footing with men.

Important advances for women's right were made recently in both Britain and in France.

In France, President Giscard d'Estaing appointed Francoise Giroud as minister for women's affairs with the responsibility of eliminating discrimination against women in government and society.

His government also pushed through a liberalized abortion law despite the opposition of the Catholic hierarchy and many deputies from the Gaulist majority.

In Britain, the Labor government issued a "white paper" in late 1974 on the state of women's rights.

The government pledged action to remedy the economic, social, and political inequality of women.

However, the most dramatic action came from the opposition Conservative party, which elected Margaret Thatcher as its new leader.

Should the Conservatives win the next election, Thatcher would become Britain's first woman prime minister.

Opinion polls in early 1975 indicated that this was a real possibility, since Thatcher led the incumbent prime minister in popularity polls.

Many liberal democratic states are experiencing a period of transition in which the role of women in society is being reassessed.

Britain and France are among those states in which changes may be expected in the next generation.

However, because the scarcity of women in politics is the product of people's attitudes and women's self-restraint than overt discrimination, changes will probably be gradual and slow. It is one thing to eliminate legal barriers to participation.

Women have long been denied access to position of political power.

In the Soviet Union, women have penetrated fields that in other countries are still male preserves, including medicine, university teaching, and the law. But, a major breakthrough for women's political rights took place in 1975 in the British Conservative party when Margaret Thatcher was elected party leader.

Now, in America, we have a challenging Democratic presidential election that demands integral participation of the citizens.

My question is who can beat the Democratic nominee?

Based on this information, make your political analysis, raise your questions, and send me your opinion.

I would respond to you soon in my next analysis.

Thank you for taking the time to read my letter.

Gauthier Saintilus, P.O. Box 20168, Brooklyn, NY 11202

Gauthier Saintilus, October 31 2007, 5:37 PM

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