Women and power. Manifesto

How deep in Western culture are mechanisms that deprive women of the right to vote in the public sphere, denying them seriously and cut off them from the possibility of being in power? I look around the long history of the Western tradition of the exclusion of women from public and political life - from antiquity to the present day - a well -known historian, professor of Cambridge University Mary Bird asks a number of questions: what is the cultural background of sexism in politics, what forms he takes? How are Western societies used to watch women with power or striving for it? The search for answers to these questions is designed to help overcome, finally, the centuries -old inequality, from which women continue to suffer. According to the author, if women are excommunicated from existing power institutions, we should probably reconsider our understanding of the authorities