Sunday, December 27, 2009

Should women rule the country?

Wikipedia defines Economics as follows,
Economics is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek (oikonomia, "management of a household, administration") from (oikos, "house") + (nomos, "custom" or "law"), hence "rules of the house (hold)". Should we just assume for the moment that someone who runs the country should know this subject well. Going by the origin of the name (management of a household, administration), it is not difficult to conclude that only women should run the country as they run the household! But it is not the case as we see right now. How many famous female economists have we heard of? Not many. Correct?
Let’s just list out the qualities the ruler should have. Ruler should be someone who knows how to manage money (of course he is not the only one who takes all decisions but he certainly has some powers) as each and every transaction that takes place is measured in terms of money. Now let’s relate this to a woman. All middle class families have their household budget decided well in advance. Irrespective of inflationary situations, Indian women are blessed with the ability to save from whatever money they get to run the house. And in case of emergency (financial) we see how her savings come to the rescue and rarely do we see deficits (which have become as common as day & night on a bigger level) in households irrespective of income level. We have seen how men have run the countries and messed things up. So let us just give a chance to women to prove their mettle (which they have already done in other areas). I may sound illogical when I promote women rulers solely on the basis of their ability to handle households effectively. But let’s just give them a chance as we have seen enough man made (literally men made!) financial disasters. One more quality that we expect of a ruler is negotiation skill as it plays a huge role in things like getting others to invest in your country, getting favorable terms for your country (again even this decision is affected by many). Now relate this to women. From simple things like buying vegetables, to negotiating renovation costs with painters and carpenters, we, every day, see this display of skills. But since these are mundane activities, the skills always go unnoticed. Leader also needs to be a people’s person, again women beat men hands down in this department, and it is not for nothing that most of the HR professionals are females!! Again this doesn’t guarantee their performance on a bigger lever but at least it gives some support to the argument. We have already seen women making a mark at local and at national level but still they are in minority. So why not have a regulation that makes it compulsory to have only women as people’s representative (at local level) and see what happens. Anyways, I have always felt that women are destined to rule the world so men would be better off giving charge of things to women, themselves. At least this would show men in good light for showing modesty and large-heartedness.

2 comments:

  1. I second your view dude..atleast they are not corrupt as far as i know them.

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  2. I somehow feel u can be a good husband !!! ;-)

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