21+).

             Clark, however, insists that Albright is as much a representative of the patriarchal approach to governing as is Thatcher. Clark notes the although the domination of women in the west is less evident as they gained political power and economic status, "women with such status tend to assume the 'shoulder pads' and 'language' of men when it comes to political and economic institutions" (2004, p. 21+). Clark cites Indira Gandhi, who was Prime Minister of India, Golda Meir of Israel, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (Reagan's Ambassador to the United Nations, Madeleine Albright (Clinton's Secretary of State, after being Ambassador to the United Nations), Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister. Clark also includes Condoleezza Rice, Bush's security advisor and now secretary of state in that category; she may exhibit the shoulder pads, but it is clearly debatable whether she will have the same direct global impact as the other women in Clark's grouping. .

             To Clark, both Thatcher and Albright belong to a club of heavyweights in world politics who subscribe to and support "culturewide assumptions about human nature" (Clark, 2004, p. 21+) that propose militarism and organized physical force are essential for keeping some semblance of world order. Indeed, the leadership styles of both women would have emerged, in Clark's view, from an embedded Western cultural belief in a Machiavellian universe, a universe in which the survival of the fittest is a not only a concept, but a way of life, and certainly, a way of governing and carrying out foreign, if not also domestic, policy.

             That both women faced various flare-ups of strife at home and/or abroad would not surprise Clark; she regards it as the result of a self-fulfilling prophecy borne out of the militaristic attitudes that caused the incidents the two women then had to deal with.

             Indeed, Clark sees both women as perfect leaders for an era like the present, an era in which George W.