{"id":8581,"date":"2018-11-13T11:03:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T10:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8581"},"modified":"2018-11-13T11:05:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T10:05:09","slug":"the-banality-of-feminist-agitprop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/8581\/","title":{"rendered":"The Banality of Feminist Agitprop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via a reader, an article<\/a> on LinkedIn from “Award-winning CEO, Keynote Speaker, Author” Andrea Heuston, who runs a small graphic design company in\u00a0Issaquah, WA.<\/p>\n

7 Traits of Successful Female Leaders<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m certain we\u2019ve all met confident women throughout our lives. These women command a room and they leave you wanting to know more about them. They usually leave a good impression and they inspire positive action within their circles of influence.<\/p>\n

But what makes these women special? What makes them stand out from the crowd? I\u2019ve been researching these women for years. From Oprah Winfrey to Coco Chanel to Indira Gandhi and Melinda Gates, these women have strength and that certain indefinable \u2018something\u2019 that creates loyalty and makes you want to follow their lead.<\/p>\n

So, what are those characteristics or traits that make those leaders stand out? Can we isolate them to emulate them? I think we can.<\/p>\n

Here are the seven traits I have been able to identify that strong female leaders possess:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m not going to reproduce them here – readers can see for themselves if so inclined – but what she’s done is take leadership traits common to all leaders irrespective of sex and thrown in the word “female” at intervals. This resulted in nearly 70k likes and 1.5k swooning comments.<\/p>\n

What this shows is not only that LinkedIn users are a bit dim, but how desperate people are to read anything positive about women in business that they’ll go giddy over something as banal as a list of 7 leadership traits dressed up in pro-women language. Now hats off to Andrea Heuston; she’s mining a rich seam if she can charge for this crap, and I’m half minded to do the same. But it’s indicative of the intellectual level at which these discussions on female empowerment take place, isn’t it?<\/p>\n

(And I didn’t miss the irony of listing as a female icon Melinda Gates, who is influential solely because her husband made a hell of a lot of money.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via a reader, an article on LinkedIn from “Award-winning CEO, Keynote Speaker, Author” Andrea Heuston, who runs a small graphic design company in\u00a0Issaquah, WA. 7 Traits of Successful Female Leaders I\u2019m certain we\u2019ve all met confident women throughout our lives. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,79],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8581"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8581"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8585,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8581\/revisions\/8585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}