If women ruled the world and the collaborative model.

I recently finished readind If Women Ruled the World. The point of the book was to get people thinking about power, what it means to them, and why women don't hold a lot of power in our current political structure. I think part of why women don't hold conventional power is that our cultural model for power is not intuitive for women. Some of this is certainly nurture, just read Odd Girl Out to get a frightening picture of the ways in which we are taught that being female means being nice. And being nice means NEVER saying what you mean or anything confrontational. But I also think some of it is hardwired into our pysche. We live with a biological reality that fosters a desire to collaborate and build community. We know there will be times we are vulnerable or in need and we work to build support structures to manage that effectively.