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Women have made great progress in recent years, Horner said, but their movement is inhibited by outdated attitudes of members of both sexes...
...Horner pointed out the increasing influence of women in business, medicine and academics and quoted recent surveys which indicate strong public confidence in women leaders...
...Horner also spoke of obstacles to women seeking leadership positions such as the perceptions people have of the "proper" roles for each sex and the belief among some that power could not be shared with women, only transferred in a "zero-sum game...
...Traditional outmoded assumptions and expectations about the relative social, economic and political power have for too long silenced the voices of women," Horner said...
...women really sitting on opposite ends of the see-saw, such that every gain that a woman gets...means a loss for a man?" Horner asked. "[We are] equally unable to accept differences between us or our growing interdependence with one another...