Are We Ready for a Female President?

We are fast approaching the possibility of our first female president. Would she garner the respect from other mail dominated regimes, or would she have to battle against the "women are inferior dogma," that is present in other countries.

A female president would have to be overly confident in her abilities because she would be in charge of an administration that has been typically run by men. She may be tested daily about her abilities to make snap judgments without showing any emotion, and if she fails to follow through will she be deemed weak by her male counterparts?

Will the American public feel safe under the directive of a female leader? Characteristically men present a sign of strength and protection. Will we feel less safe and vulnerable to other nations, in some countries women are still oppressed and subjected to discrimination, this may in turn cause the other nations to be more aggressive towards us because they see women as weak or inferior. The first female president will have to present a tough and no nonsense attitude from the very beginning, and if possible maintain her tough position throughout her term as the president.

Will she be judged more critically by the public and the press for mistakes that she will most certainly make? And will it be blamed on the fact that she was acting out of emotion, supposedly a female characteristic and not logic. Will she be second guessed about every decision she makes by her cabinet because the majority of the cabinet members are men? I believe this will be a constant internal power struggle that she will have to deal with, it is a fact of life that women in a position of power find themselves in a constant tug of war with their male counterparts as they climb the career ladder in male dominated fields of work.

Will she be aggressive enough to take appropriate action against our enemies, and use the military wisely when the situation arises, or will she be in favor of a more diplomatic solution. Hopefully we will not have more situations where the use of force will be necessary. But that is very unrealistic in the terrorist world we live in today. If the situation does arise, lets hope that she will make the decision to use force based on the facts and not because she is being pressured to act by her male advisor's, due to the misconception that women are less prone to violence and agression.

I could continue on and on with these type of questions, and I am sure they have crossed everyone's mind. My viewpoints are not based on chauvinistic a way of thinking, bearing in mind I am a woman contemplating this question, and we are a world made up of men and women. This topic will inevitably be discussed numerous times in the future of politics.