Andover in the NY Times- "School vote stirs debate on girls as leaders

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<p>Interesting article on lack of women in student leadership positions. Hopefully, it will spark the type of healthy debate that benefits all participants</p>

<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/12/education/phillips-andover-girls-leadership-debated.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/12/education/phillips-andover-girls-leadership-debated.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>This may be part of the problem.</p>

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<p>^^^was a misquote. The author of the article has had a history of misquoting and showing bias in her articles.</p>

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<p>Why don’t Andover people accept the fact that there only have been a few girl presidents in a long time? When the facts are staring you in the eye, why are you trying to shoot the messenger? Abbott Academy would have been better off not merging with Andover.</p>

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<p>But the issue isn’t with Andover, although they may be able to do something about it internally. Almost all co-ed schools will find the same issue, and looking higher up, there’s never been a female US president.</p>

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<p>In no way am I trying to take away from the fact that there is a problem! My post was to defend Farris in saying that she wasn’t trying to attack Junius/those weren’t her real reasons. There is a general consensus that there is gender inequality in terms of student goverent at Andover. What has really sparked debate is the fact that some students are trying to argue that we need to get a better representation of females by votin for a female-male co-presendential model as opposed to the male-male. This puts gender bias into the equation, which is what another group has tried to argue. Some say that the presedential campaign shouldn’t be based off of gender, but rather it be based on credentials and ability to lead. I am tryig to be as unbjased in presentimg these arguments as possible so please don’t judge tol hard!!</p>

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<p>There’s no doubt in my mind that we still have cultural sexism, and as long as we do it’s an uphill battle for girls to be elected just based on their “credentials and ability to lead”. I think a system of co-presidents with a required girl and boy makes a lot of sense.</p>

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<p>Just fyi, here’s a great post by the former editor in chief of the phillipian. It’s a critique of the article posted by the OP</p>

<p>Samuelgreen.org/post/4775630141/getting-it-wrong</p>