Mellott Participation

Kalena Mellott

This week I asked my interviewee the question of why there are not more women in politics.  My interviewee immediately said it is because politics is male dominated and that is how it has always been.  The interviewee said that these high positions were only seen as available for men and that women were not trusted to be able to hold these high positions, and this view was due to the inequality that women face in society.  She felt that the way that men are seeing as having to be able to take care of the women and the home and this a reason that men are seeing and portrayed as more qualified for higher political positions.  She does not think that this is how it should be though.  She says men and women are equal in her opinion and that women could do just as well if not better than men in high political positions.