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What qualities do you think about when you think of the president of the United States? Someone who is strong, intelligent, wise, charismatic, honest, compassionate, and above all a leader of men. In the past the position of president in this country has been taken by a male. Women have made significant strides in the political arena considering they were not even allowed to vote in the beginning. These feminist political movements culminated in a close race last presidential election where Hillary Clinton made a run to be the first female president in our countries history. Many people, however, said that they could not see a woman leading our country. Their argument is that traditional female characteristics could easily get in the way of successfully running a country. While it has been done before it has never been done here. It is said that women are too emotional or that they are not strong willed. They are not natural leaders as men are seen to be in the traditional view of family life. However, all these obstacles are not stopping women from entering the political world. A good example of this is right here in South Carolina with our first female governor Nikki Haley. This seems to break the stereotype of a governor as well as a female. Women are proving that they can be just as effective in leadership roles as men yet when comparing them to certain individuals that is not saying much. It is now being seen that women can in fact bring new and useful traits to a leadership post. This is only one example of the changing gender roles in modern society which we have been discussing lately. Society itself has been preaching more and more acceptance of being whatever you want to be and not being caged by outdated gender stereotypes. This is a good strategy of diversification in order to develop a better competitive advantage for our country. If we stayed limited by our traditional views of gender we would be in a much different situation and more than likely it would not be any better.