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# Women and Power
> Mary Beard
This is a very short book which only took an hour or so to read. I think I will read it again soon due to its brevity, as I felt I missed a lot of what it had to say.
It is composed of two essays. The first of which addresses how women's relation to power and agency has been historically understood, through the lens of art history over several thousand years. The second talks about how we as a treat contemporary women in power, drawing reference to figures such as Margaret Thatcher, Angela Merkel and Hillary Clinton. Two key points I found interesting were the observations that women in power necessarily must adopt masculine traits to be taken seriously, and the fundamental difference in public reaction to the mistakes of political men vs. women, in that men are expected to do a better job, whereas women are expected to defer to someone more competent - ostensibly, a man.
I'll revisit this after reading the essays again, since I feel I still have much to glean from them.