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Queen Elizabeth II never married and had absolute power. She reflected an example of what women can and cannot achieve in power. She used her sex to take advantage of men by seducing in order to get what she wanted for power.
Women tend to use sex as a source for power and sometimes hold back on sex in the relationships. Sometimes some women wanted children for wrong reasons not because not all women make good mother but they tend to believe having children gives more power over men. Women feel that they have rights to be individuals to make their decisions about whether to wear clothes, in spite of sexism like mini skirts, and invisible blouse with visible bras plus whether to use make up. Depending on power division between men and women it focuses on equality by sharing power involving family responsibilities, and decision-making at all levels. There should be an equality of opportunity but sadly in corporate world women tend to be counted like “beans” in similar to quotas. In reality the corporate world does miss some points in reference to what women want for the balance of power. Unfortunately today, more men have controlled power over women than women over men. Some factors are sexism, sex discrimination, and sexual stratification as called undeniable realities. Men view that women have always been subordinate. By employment discrimination the system in working world women roles are believed to be servants of men. An issue of sexual difference focuses on men and women in relating to power in today’s life as follows:
World Social Forum aims several goals about issues relating to empowerment, gender mainstreaming and human rights as follows:
Are women and men equal? Yes, women and men are “different but equal”. This refers to sexual rights, health and violence against women with different cultures and struggles. There is a difference between global feminism and local feminism. The examples are as follows: USA: Asia and Australia: India & South Asia: Latin America: South Africa: Iran:
Global Women’s Right Movement and Power Politics stated that there are two groups to enhance women’s self esteem and strength:
The reason to participate the above groups is that there are performances, difficulties and successes of women entering in the male dominated world like wage earners. Involved are work, power and identity including family roles as well.
Biopolitics are called as another kind of politics about govern and administrative life in political world. This is another kind of politics specifically for gender and power in the government systems. Some anthropologists believed that early societies were matriarchal (female leader in the tribe). For example, Iroquois, North American Indian tribe was dominated by Indian women. Women acted more responsible of power than men. At this present in the USA, women compose of 16% in Congress in spite of the female majority (51% American women). Compared to the world in statistics about women in power, few women in political office are involved in the world. The World Global Forum established its gender empowerment measure based on three concepts; participation in political decision-making, access to professional opportunities; and earning power. USA is 66th out of 115 countries in gender gap. Because of its middle ranking status, some figures reflect that there are 15% in elected official positions; 14% in minister level and no female leadership in the executive office. Sweden is one of top 10 countries as number one in the ranking and had over 80% to close its gender gap. (Source: The Global Gender Gap Report 2006)
In most states, women tend to be 10 years or older than men. (about ¾ of all women over 50s). As you can see a chart as displayed above about men and women legislators in the states, it shows not much increase from 1991 to 2006 , an average of 22% women legislators in the USA when women became elected.
In the US Congress, female legislators are in 60s and not willing or able to wage as competitive against men in 40s. Unfortunately the statistics show the percentage of female office holders flat-lined in recent years. International Parliamentary Union's Women in National Parliaments made a comment about positive trends in the world as follows:
The goal to bring equality between women and men in decision-making is a challenge to ensure women's effective participation in all areas of decision making. How? A simple answer but not easy is by introducing special measures such as quotas to increase the representation of women and to set up a special election to make women eligible to run as officers. Right now we need to raise public awareness and encourage women's associations or clubs to work together to actively promote participation of women.
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Hatshepsut who was a first female pharaoh in Egypt, adopted male appearance including a false beard and denied feminine. Before she reigned her country for 
End gender violence
advantage of any woman's organization as replacement for power. 
time, part time, seasonal and home based workers. 
Ensure full time and part time jobs by women and men on equal basis.
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