Oh good lord, the level of purposeful delusion and refusal to interface with actual reality. No, 94% of Americans would not vote for a woman - no matter what they say about that as an abstract possibility. And the way we know that is the way that every single serious female candidate is treated - even the ones who eventually do get elected. The body of evidence on that is SO overwhelming that it could and undoubtedly has, filled dozens of books. Women who are seen to be seeking masculine coded positions of authority, particularly in politics, are widely seen as threatening, out of line, unfeminine, unlikeable, and bitchy. How many times was Clinton told she needed to smile more? No male candidates were told that because we hold men to different standards and some women even buy into this because we're all awash in the same patriarchal system. A whole bunch of Muslim countries have had women leaders and yet we never have. Pretending that isn't for a very insidious reason is truly sticking your head in the sand.
Your weird Pollyanna attitude is not going to save the world or help the women around you who are treated poorly. It's only going to let the violence and the bullshit continue while you smile and pat yourself on the back. The Reykjavik Leadership Index is a measure of an abstract concept, and has little bearing on what is actually happening in this country and others. People who have actually documented that studying real-life dynamics (and not just what people say they believe) report that the gender authority gap is still quite hefty - and they give clear and very specific examples of how that manifests.
The evidence for the size and persistence of the authority gap isn’t just in theunsurprising, for example that when men exert authority they are seen as taking control, but when women do it they are dismissed as “bossy”, “abrasive”, and “bitchy”. Sieghart also brings in more subtle evidence that shows how women’s learned impulse to render themselves as unobtrusive as possible begins to dictate entire national characteristics. In one remarkable section, she explains how the very register of a woman’s voice is dictated by the need to appear unthreatening to men – the higher it is, the more women are demonstrating “feminine” traits such as “submissiveness, deference and subservience”. In Japan, women use markedly higher ranges than in western countries, peaking when they are trying to be polite. In another section, she mentions an app called Woman Interrupted, which detects when a male voice speaks over a woman. In the UK, this happens 1.67 times a minute, while in Pakistan it’s 8.28 times. Such detail seems less damning than the conditions that powerful women still face, but in its subtlety much more devastating.
https://time.com/6163490/authority-gap-between-men-and-women-hurts-us-all/
"This is something that Mike Rann, former premier of South Australia, has noticed in politics. I went to talk to him about the appalling misogyny that his friend and colleague Julia Gillard had endured when she was Australia’s first and so far only female prime minister. But he expanded on his theme. “Women read their briefs, they don’t just read the summary of their Cabinet papers, they’ve actually done the homework, often much more diligently,” he told me. “And why? Partly because it’s the right thing to do, but because they’re constantly being judged more harshly, under different standards to the blokes, they have to make sure they go the extra mile. So I think men have a lot to learn from women and I don’t understand why they’re so scared.”
One consequence of the authority gap is that women are held to higher standards. This means that employers are often losing out on under-promoted female talent. So they, too, have a lot to gain from narrowing the gap."
Honestly, I don't expect you to be in the least bit swayed by actual evidence when how it "feels" to you is a much nicer place to hang out, but perhaps somebody else reading this will have access to some moments of reality.
And why are you using the term patriarchy without defining it? 🙄
Edit: I looked into the Reykjavik Index further. The US scores the same as Urban India (rape capital of the world). Not exactly a ringing endoresement…
