You can't easily fit women into a structure that is already coded as
male; you have to change the structure. That means thinking about power
differently. It means decoupling it from public prestige. It means
thinking collaboratively, about the power of followers not just of
leaders. It means above all thinking about power as an attribute or even
a verb ('to power'), not as a possession: what I have in mind is the
ability to be effective, to make a difference in the world, and the
right to be taken seriously, together as much as individually.
-- Mary Beard. "Women in Power"
London Review of Books Vol. 39 No. 6 (16 March 2017)
pages 9-14.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n06/mary-beard/women-in-power