[HPforGrownups] Gender in the WW

[Irene Mikhlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 143594

--- krista7 <erikog at one.net> wrote:

> Who is the Minister of Magic 
> is book six and before that? Both men.

There were female ministers of magic.

 Headmaster of
> Hogwarts? To the 
> best of our knowledge, MM will be the first female
> in 100 years. 

It's not her fault that headmasters tend to stick in
their job for 50 years and more. There was a female
headmaster in 19th century (she is mentioned in OoTP),
and she also was the manager of St. Mungo before
coming to Hogwarts. That's a powerful job in the
wizarding society.
And Madame Maxime is a contemporary Headmistress.

> Show
> me a 
> woman in power, other than Judge Bones! 

What about that top civil servant, Miss Umbridge? :-)

(And 1
> doesn't cut it
> in a world with half the population female.)
> 
> Women in jobs? Pomfrey's a nurse, Madame Malkin runs
> a *clothing 
> shop*, and there's whatssherface who runs the tea
> shop (don't kill me
>  for forgetting her name), none of which rock the
> boat in terms of 
> making feminist advances.

Women can be Healers, Aurors, quidditch players (have
you noticed that all the chasers on Irish team are
females?), Triwizard champions, members of Slug club
etc.

I'd say it's more equality that muggle world has.

 Women at Hogwarts teach
> herbology, 
> transfiguration, divination (mocked as *not* a hard
> science), 

But Tranfiguration is a harder science than Charms,
and a woman was a better teacher of Care for the
Magical creatures than a man, why do you discard the
fact that don't fit your theory?

> 
> Ron refers to Hermione jokingly as a "scarlet woman"
> for
> being seen with multiple men in Rita's reporting,
> and I think
> that is *very* telling about the conservative gender
> ethos in
> the Wizarding World. 

Nope, it only tells us that Ron is a MSP. ;-) I'll
grant you that.

Irene


		
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