Are Leaders Getting Too Emotional?

I think we also need to make a distinction between people in positions of power, where emotional expression is always problematic because you expect a certain contained demeanor– although norms are changing, as Gautam was saying– and leaders, where emotions is the whole thing. But it is too easy to use gendered attacks– arguing that someone is, essentially, overly emotional, and not thinking things through– against a female leader, or any female leader in a contentious situation where there are people trying to undercut her to not be extremely cautious of that concern.