Lynn Weaver

Archives for September 2022

Human Wellbeing

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  The Human Development Index (HDI) is typically used as a wellbeing measurement, in the sense that it extends beyond the economic health (GDP) of a nation (Hou, 2015).  By nature of the volume of complexity, it is a simplification, and does not factor in equity (the division between wealthy and impoverished within a country, …

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Gendered Leadership

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  A Google search of “great leaders” displays, not surprisingly (in the patriarchal hegemony), predominantly men – Gandhi, Churchill, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King*.  The one woman that shows up on some of these lists is Mother Teresa, who, though admirable, her service to her version of God is not one I wish to emulate.  …

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