Here's a fantastic article in Forbes you won't want to miss, featuring Condoleezza Rice, Janet Napolitano, Anna Wintour, Hillary Clinton, and Jill Abramson, among others detailing the 10 Worst Stereotypes About Powerful Women. All the more reason to write rich, multi-dimensional characters for readers to look to. Then when they see real-life women expressing those characteristics of authority, it's not so inconceivable or foreign. Better yet, let's keep celebrating femininity wherever we see it
Enough blustering and bullying, I promise if you let girls be girls, it will be a blessing to us all.
*From the film "Up in the Air"
Published on October 26, 2011 11:47