Charli Carpenter: Flight of the Valkyries? | Foreign Affairs
These discussions reveal far more about gender misconceptions among foreign policy journalists than about the preferences or influence of Obama’s female foreign policy staff. Avlon, Dowd, Dreyfuss, and others apparently subscribe to the classic gender myth that women are generally more diplomatic and opposed to war than men. […]
But the wider scholarship on gender and international affairs — to say nothing of the historical record — provides plenty of evidence that thoroughly refutes the association between women and peace.
