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WHEN THE glass ceiling BREAKS

Maggie Thatcher has a lot to reply to for. The former (and very first female) Prime Minister of The uk from 1979 to 1990 have also been the longest-serving PM in modern times. Respected and reviled for her tough posture and unbending will, she epitomised what people did not like about women in power. Tough. Egotistic. Unsympathetic. And yet, she was unquestionably successful. What most people usually do not consider is that Mrs Thatcher (it�s doubtful she'd have been happy with �Ms�) had just a male construct of management and power on which to be able to model herself. You could title on one hand the number of women who had been leaders of their country (without getting born into the position) prior to Thatcher. The only real model of how to direct a country was written by males over enturies. And men are dissimilar to women. Yes, Maggie was a precursor. She broke through "the glass ceiling", in which metaphorical barrier that tantalised as well as kept them from opportunities of real power. Dubbed �The Iron Lady�, Margaret challenged the particular public�s (unrealistic?) expectation that a woman in power would have the heart. There has never already been a question that a man should have a heart in the same circumstances. Thatcher was tough and also unwavering � just like the majority of man political leaders around the world and thru history. In the 21st century we have a developing body of female role models in leadership roles who're redefining the very concept of authority. Precisely because we have more women in powerful opportunities than ever before. As a consequence, we are able to explore the �rules� of what it is to become a leader. Margaret Thatcher did not have in which luxury. She was a trailblazer and there was enormous pressure to perform � because she was a girl. Those women have got to that position because other females, like Maggie Thatcher, have gone before to blaze the trail. Just like any other trailblazer, it is expected which others who come after may improve and do things differently. Yet, if it are not for those who go before, ordinary people would take longer to move ahead. It has to be remembered that women just have been in the workforce in large numbers since the late 1940�s. Within the 1950�s we were encouraged to step out of the workforce and go back to be dutiful wives, mothers, daughters. We all know how hard it is to set something back in its container after we�ve taken it out. And thus in the 1960�s women were �liberated� as well as the concept of a working life for women, even a career, was made possible. (There are notable exceptions such as when one had to decide if one became married, and definitely pregnant). So, bear in mind that ladies have only 50 years of serious staff participation and the growth had been rapid to the point where few, in the event that any, occupations are definitely out-of-bounds. Women have raced up the leadership steps over the past twenty years and now we have raised participation at the top echelons of companies and politics although Panel roles are still under-represented by ladies. Much of this is thanks to women like Maggie Thatcher. Politics aside, adore her or loath the girl, she was a feminist by the girl very exemplar. She, and others just like her, made it possible for women how to ignorantly say, �I�m not a feminist and I don�t have confidence in feminism�. The only reason they have the freedom to think that their role as a fire-fighter or a senior manager is �the norm� and totally on merit happens because women like Thatcher went through the hard yards and stood up against the tide to normalise women�s experiences nowadays. Maggie broke the Glass Ceiling. Doing that takes a sound sense of self.