What image do you have of a powerful man?

 The most important discoveries will provide answers to questions that we do not yet know how to ask and will concern objects we have not yet imagined. -John N. Bahcall, astrophysicist (30 Dec 1935-2005)

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Bill Gates    

Vladimir Putin

Barach Obama

Athlete in the Olympics in 2016.

This is an entrepreneur.

This is a doctor.

Joe Biden

Famous authors

Or scientists?

How about the man who came up with the Gaia theory...the beginning of looking at climate change?

I believe I read that he died recently at age 103.

Who do you think the children of today would consider to be their role models of powerful men?

What image do you have of a powerful woman?

 What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? -George Eliot (pen name of Mary Ann Evans), novelist (22 Nov 1819-22 Dec 1880)

Here I'm changing focus (from the environment) to look at another kind of power...in people!

Margaret Atwood

Politics or business or entertainment?

The Spice Girls

And I'm adding this image at the last minute...an Indigenous woman who sang in her language to the Pope, who had just been given a chief's headdress after he apologized for all the deaths in the indigenous schools. Many Indigenous people thought he should not have been given that honor at all.

OK women... did you know about Equal Pay Day, which marks how far into the new year women must work to be paid what men received the previous year?

On average, U.S. women across all professions make 83 cents to a man's dollar of income; thus, Equal Pay Day for all women is usually in March.

Equal Pay Day for minority women comes even later in the year. For Black women, it will take place on September 21, 2022 (58 cents for each dollar paid to white men). Native Women's Equal Pay Day will take place on November 30, 2022 (50 cents). Latina Equal Pay Day falls on December 8 this year (49 cents).

SOURCE: MedPageToday

I bring these images to you, and ask for your own sense of what a powerful woman looks like. I just want to know how our daughters and granddaughters have role models these days!

And never fear, men, for tomorrow I'll consider what powerful men look like.