Paul Sassone

They never seem to work.

Nevertheless, we make them every year.

New year’s resolutions.

Each year we vow to be more kind, to lose weight, to be more generous, to argue less and to work harder.

This means that each year we fail to fulfill these vows, otherwise making them would not be a yearly event.

Why is that, I wonder?

Perhaps the problem is that we all have individual changes we want to make. Maybe what we need is one giant resolution that encompasses a need all of us have.

I think I have one, something we all need to resolve together.

Be it resolved: Men can’t be in charge anymore.

The year just ending has made it clear as crystal that men are not fit to run things.

We have learned that in business one of the first things men do when achieving power is to use that power to dominate and sexually exploit women.

Male leaders in government seem to be no better. There are daily headlines of political leaders accused of sexual harassment — charges that often lately are being leveled at men who bring us the news.

And do I even have to mention that the office of president of the United States is occupied by a major misogynist?

What we need to resolve is — whenever possible — to put women in charge of more things.

Will women manage and govern better than men?

Men seem to view power as an opportunity to not be told what to do and to make others do what they want them to do. Power thus is an end in itself.

Are women different from men in this? Do they see power as a tool to accomplish other, more beneficial ends?

Only time and experience will tell.

But men have so badly screwed up business and government giving more control to women certainly is worth pursuing.

–We need to put women in charge of more things–