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Ep. 88: Metrics of Empowerment

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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Women in Politics - Is There a Difference?

I'm a big fan of Margaret Thatcher, I think she did a lot. But Indra Gandhi was an absolute monster and completely the opposite. The decisions that you take at such positions are generally hard decisions. You won't be making soft decisions like, should I go have a real ice cream or not? And they are almost all have very high-cost benefit attached to that. So none of them are easy decisions. Men are hardwired to lust for power more than women are white simply. It's just- I'm afraid it's biological as well.

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