Many more women provide visible leadership today than ever before. Opening up higher education for women and winning the battle for suffrage brought new opportunities, along with widespread availability of labor-saving devices and the discovery and legalization of reliable, safe methods of birth control. Despite these developments, women ambitious for leadership still face formidable obstacles: primary if not sole responsibility for childcare and homemaking; the lack of family-friendly policies in most workplaces; gender stereotypes perpetuated in popular culture; and in some parts of the world, laws and practices that deny women education or opportunities outside the home. Some observers believe that only a few women want to hold significant, demanding leadership posts; but there is ample evidence on the other side of this debate, some of it documented in this volume. Historic tensions between feminism and power remain to be resolved by creative theorizing and shrewd, strategic activism. We cannot know whether women are “naturally” interested in top leadership posts until they can attain such positions without making personal and family sacrifices radically disproportionate to those faced by men.

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妇女，权力与领导力

今天，比以往任何时候都有更多的妇女担任领导职务。开放女性高等教育，并赢得了选举带来了新的机遇之战，与节省劳力的设备的普及和节育的可靠，安全的方法发现和合法化一起。尽管取得了这些进展，但雄心勃勃的妇女仍然面临着巨大的障碍：育儿和做家的主要责任，甚至不是唯一责任；大多数工作场所缺乏家庭友好政策；流行文化中长期存在的性别陈规定型观念；在世界某些地方，法律和惯例剥夺了妇女在家庭外接受教育或获得机会的机会。一些观察家认为，只有少数女性想担任重要的，苛刻的领导职务。但是这场辩论的另一面有足够的证据，其中一些记录在本卷中。女权主义与权力之间的历史性紧张关系仍需通过创造性的理论和精明的战略行动主义来解决。我们不知道妇女是否对高层领导职位有“天生的兴趣”，直到她们能够担任这样的职位而又不使个人和家庭的牺牲与男人所面对的牺牲成比例。