Domestic Versus Global

Have you noticed how, in domestic arenas such as families, housing, bill paying, clothes buying and other financial matters, women are the ‘movers and shakers’.
Women usually choose and organise house purchases and manage complex and tense negotiations.

That’s why I didn’t post last week. I was working on organising a house purchase with my partner.

Yet you move to the global arena and you see men running the countries, economies and policies. Surely this begs the question of where they get their experience from. Of course these men have degrees and have had experiences in business and world trade as professionals. However, these ‘professionals’ usually have partners or significant others or female personal assistants who undertake the day to day activities of life – such as paying bills and collecting the dry cleaning.

There are an infinite ways of approaching this topic but I would rather pose a question. How can men, who are not in the habit of running their domestic finances, fulfil the responsibilities of running global economies and politics?

This is why we should seriously question the ability of a Texan landholder to rule America and bring peace to a war-torn Iraq.