Based on women's 52 percent of the population, parity of power can be quantified. It means elective offices and executive positions in proportion to women's percentage of the population. At UNC-CH, a student body of 60 percent women should logically expect parity to multiply the four women deans to seven of the 14 deans, especially within the next few years. But every movement has its limitations. Trying to crack America's most durable glass ceiling, the Fortune 500, by increasing the three women CEOs to 252 is a virtual impossibility.
Corporate testosterone is a formidable culture.
The Secret Crisis of Male Body Obsession , suggests a reason for male resistance to women gaining parity. A group of Harvard professors of psychiatry noticed a sharp increase in male gym memberships, male use of steroids, and an illness, bigorexia, caused by compulsive exercising. Blaming women for the increase in male obsession with muscle-building is like blaming Abraham Lincoln for the increase of crime in the black communities. My feminism is not unconditional. I can no more support a female Southern university president who methodically downgrades African Americans in her administration any more than I can support a black Supreme Court justice who judicially dismantles all of the civil rights gains or a university dean who sexually harasses a colleague or an organization that bars gays and lesbians.