Select two living female leaders, two living male leaders, two deceased female l

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Select two living female leaders, two living male leaders, two deceased female leaders, and two deceased male leaders to study and include in your assignment. Take your time selecting these leaders. Challenge yourself not to “just” pick the obvious (John F. Kennedy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Hillary Clinton, etc.). The creativity (and appropriateness) with which you select leaders will be considered in your evaluation. You may want to think about your academic major and identify key leaders in that field; you may want to consider issues that are important to you personally and select leaders accordingly; you may want to select a wide variety of leaders to compare and contrast).

2. List all of your leaders in a way that enables you to brainstorm/record their individual characteristics and contributions. (Think “giant poster” with “post-it” notes tacked up under a given leader’s name). For each leader, list the leadership characteristics and key contributions associated with each. Also list the way that the leaders were (or are) perceived by the public. What adjectives are associated with these people?

3. Think about the association between characteristics that you have identified with each of your leaders and the masculinity/femininity of these traits? Do the leaders tend to have a balance of stereotypically masculine and feminine traits, or are they more heavily weighted toward one or the other?

Explanation / Answer

Note: This response is in UK English, please paste the response to MS Word and you should be able to spot discrepancies easily. You may elaborate the answer based on personal views or your classwork if necessary. Also, you may have to pick characteristics that you personally admire or want to explore about your academic major.

(Answer) Alive Female Leaders:

Tarana Burke – Began the famed global “Me Too” movement.

Bravely spoke out against abusive men in power and encourages women around the world to speak out about such atrocious individuals.

Malala Yousafzai – Women’s rights and girls’ education rights activist.

She was shot in the face in her home country of Pakistan simply because she was a girl who chose to go to school and survived to activate a movement of women around the world being encouraged to go to school.

Alive Male Leaders:

Pope Francis – Leader of the Catholic Church.

A liberal pope who believes in a sense of inclusion for all type of individuals who have been shunned and desire a connection with their beliefs.

Ronan Farrow – Pulitzer winning journalist who exposed Harvey Weinstein and others.

Bravely wrote a report about a top Hollywood producer who got away with abusing women for decades and received death threats for his work.

Deceased Female Leaders:

Jane Austen – English writer in a male-dominated society.

The society she was brought up in would frown upon the idea of a working woman, let alone a famous woman writer. She went on to become one of the best-selling novelists of her time and even today.

Marie Curie – Physicist who discovered radium.

Discovered radium with the assistance of her husband Pierre Curie and consequently dies of radiation poisoning.

Deceased Male Leaders:

Mahatma Gandhi – Won independence for India from the British colonists without a war.

Won independence for India and is the father of the nation with the world’s largest democracy. There was no war fought to acquire this freedom.

Sir Alexander Fleming – Discovered antibiotics.

He discovered penicillin and eventually went on to discover many more antibiotics that have helped eradicate several diseases.

Observation of adjectives associated with the leaders – It is odd that a woman is expected to be gentle, calm and composed and the men in this list are famous for possessing those very qualities. Conversely, men are expected to be fearless, outspoken and formidable when it is the females in the list above who possess these qualities. It is certain that the people in the list above gained the attention of the world by simply not sticking to their expected stereotypes and actually fighting the good fight to keep their convictions alive.

In all cases above, regardless of the gender of the people, they have all exhibited a great focus in their work be it in journalism, medicine, politics, religion etc. They have broken the mould of the existing standards of their field and dared to think differently, thus avoiding a static view of things.

Furthermore, some of the individuals listed above are no strangers to bullets being fired at them or to meet death as a result of their work. Yet, the attitudes they bear upon opposition has been one of a nonchalant sense of calm because they have focused on the larger goal and not the oppressor in their pant.

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