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Power Hair
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Hair that doesn't scream "I want to speak to the manager", but a softspoken (yet confident) "I am the manager". Women in politics and business have to be meticulous with their appearance, lest they look weak, inexperienced, or unprofessional. This means that one of the most common and effective hairstyles a woman politician can have is Power Hair. It consists of a short cut reaching the jawline, parted in front and coiffed expertly with mousse or hair net and swept towards the edge of the jaw, so you'll never see it cross in front of the face like many a lovestruck Damsel Scrappy does incessantly. Power Hair is patterned somewhat on the hairstyle commonly used by flappers in the twenties. Another common variation is cutting it short all over but leaving it longer near the top and "sweeping" it upwards. Power Hair is so pervasive it's worked its way even into Disney cartoons. Similar to its Sister Trope Boyish Short Hair, the reason why this cut is deemed professional is because it actively averts Long Hair Is Feminine, since femininity is often associated with incompetence and unreliability, both in general and in relation to masculinity. However, whereas Boyish Short Hair intentionally mimics short hairstyles that men sport, Power Hair still seeks to maintain its femininity in its styling, as being a woman that's perceived as too masculine has its own slew of issues. This trope is an example of Truth in Television. Numerous, numerous female politicians will have Power Hair or a variation thereof. It's a brave woman who wears a different hairstyle, and a political juggernaut if she does so and remains successful. Possibly justified in that shorter hair is becoming a fad with older women in the West since it's easier to care for, and few politicians get to the top in their youth. (All this also applies in business and certain professions.) See also Iron Lady and High-Powered Career Woman, who are likely to sport this hairstyle, and Lady in a Power Suit, the perfect accessory for the hair. Oppose Power Makes Your Hair Grow. Related to Real Women Don't Wear Dresses. Examples |
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| Power Hair / int_1e5baa97 | type |
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| Power Hair / int_1e5baa97 | comment |
Marcela and Margarita from Yo soy Betty, la fea | |
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| Yo soy Betty, la fea | hasFeature |
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| Power Hair / int_23be51db | type |
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Black Canary is one of the biggest Action Girls in the DC universe. Occasionally her hair is cut short when not in a wig, though starting sometime in the '90s, she grew out her hair and dyed it blonde. This style was one of her shorter cuts. | |
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| Power Hair / int_27777760 | type |
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Eva Thorne from Eureka has classic Power Hair, befitting her business-like persona and background. | |
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| Power Hair / int_27831967 | type |
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Leslie's mother on Parks and Recreation, who is the head of the Department of Education, has this haircut. Leslie gets a cut like it for Season 1's "The Banquet," but it just ends up making her and Ann get mistaken for a couple. | |
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| Power Hair / int_2bb4ae0f | type |
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Angela Petrelli of Heroes has Power Hair to go along with her painfully perfect cutthroat high society aide. It really shouldn't come as a surprise when it turns out she's the Evil Matriarch and in league with Linderman to destroy New York. In later seasons the actress's hair got longer, and she started arranging it in a very tight updo which creates an even more power-y effect. The comparison became obvious in a flashback to pre-season 1 before Arthur's apparent death. | |
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| Power Hair / int_2f3162e4 | type |
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Miranda in Sex and the City, who is the least feminine of the main characters and works as a no-nonsense Manhattan lawyer. | |
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| Power Hair / int_3544ad11 | type |
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Claire Underwood sports one in House of Cards (US). | |
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| Power Hair / int_428a472b | type |
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Glenn Close as the vice president in Air Force One. | |
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| Power Hair / int_457b671e | type |
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Cherry Jones as President Allison Taylor on 24. | |
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Courtney from Total Drama has this along with her desire to be a lawyer. | |
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| Total Drama | hasFeature |
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| Power Hair / int_4ba42e41 | type |
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Vickie Guerrero initially had long hair but had switched to this around the time she became Official Consultant of Smackdown. Coincidentally the shorter hair coincided with her becoming a more straightforward evil authority figure when beforehand she had been in a lengthy romantic comedy storyline with Edge. | |
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| Power Hair / int_4da11f30 | type |
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Mon Mothma, leader of the Rebel Alliance, from Return of the Jedi. One of the few sci-fi examples of this trope. | |
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| Return of the Jedi | hasFeature |
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| Power Hair / int_53a73ca0 | type |
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| Power Hair / int_53a73ca0 | comment |
Mina Bonteri of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, complete with graying sideburns. | |
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| Star Wars: The Clone Wars | hasFeature |
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| Power Hair / int_585e3746 | type |
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Elizabeth Perkins in Big. As she goes from a hard-nosed businesswoman to a more whimsical romantic interest, her hair softens from scene to scene. | |
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Another of Streep's memorable performances was in the 2004 adaptation of The Manchurian Candidate, where she plays a senator and mother to Raymond Shaw, again with typical Power Hair. | |
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| Power Hair / int_5b3356f8 | type |
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In Turning Red, Ming and her mother Wu have this as part of their look as a business owner and matriarch respectively. | |
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Megan from xkcd wears her hair short, and plays a much more active role than most other female characters. | |
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| Power Hair / int_6c5e0560 | type |
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In Fushigi Yuugi, Yui cut her hair short so that boys would stop bothering her. | |
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| Power Hair / int_6d6f8656 | type |
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Holland Taylor as Professor Stromwell in Legally Blonde. Hilariously in a deleted scene from the sequel, she asks her hairdresser for a mohawk. | |
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| Power Hair / int_73d7930f | type |
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| Power Hair / int_73d7930f | comment |
Major Kira Nerys in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine started off with Power Hair, cropped it later, and finally grew it back to a more Power Hair-like cut. | |
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| Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | hasFeature |
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| Power Hair / int_76db0ea5 | type |
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| Power Hair / int_76db0ea5 | comment |
Power Girl, another major DC Action Girl and usually sports a bob cut, but sometimes goes for the power hair approach. | |
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| Power Girl (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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| Power Hair / int_786a1389 | type |
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| Power Hair / int_786a1389 | comment |
Sun-ah in The Devil Judge is the director of a corporation and wields considerable behind-the-scenes power. She wears short power hair fitting her powerful image and aura. | |
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| Power Hair / int_791f9a4a | type |
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| Power Hair / int_791f9a4a | comment |
Sylia Stingray from the Bubblegum Crisis OVAs has this hairstyle, as does Prime Minister Kayabuki in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd Gig. Both of them were played by Yoshiko Sakakibara, who has Power Hair in Real Life. | |
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| Power Hair / int_7b82aa31 | type |
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| Power Hair / int_7b82aa31 | comment |
Cruella de Vil in 101 Dalmatians was perhaps the earliest Disney villainess with Power Hair. Accentuated by dividing it into half white and black. One exception is hers was not moussed, so it would sweep around across her head and face when her temper went out of control. | |
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| Power Hair / int_87681db3 | type |
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In Working Girl, Tess is pretending to be the boss, rather than a secretary. In order to pull it off successfully, she says she needs "serious hair". | |
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Glass Onion: Andi is a high-powered businesswoman and co-founder of a billion-dollar company who wears her hair in a neat, closely-cropped blonde bob. It's such a meticulous 'do that her twin Helen (who wears her natural hair long) worries about the work needed to emulate it for the Twin Switch. | |
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In Death Note, Kiyomi Takada wears her hair short. She is a respected TV personality and "official" spokeswoman for Kira. | |
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| Power Hair / int_8d81bb26 | type |
Power Hair | |
| Power Hair / int_8d81bb26 | comment |
Jenny Shepherd, director of NCIS goes through a number of hairstyles, but this seems to be the most common. | |
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| Power Hair / int_8d81d9fa | type |
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| Power Hair / int_8d81d9fa | comment |
Mine: Seo-hyun, the hard-as-nails head of the Han family, has the standard power hairdo, namely a short cut that is swept to the side in front and so carefully moussed it looks like a blade. Contrast the other daughter-in-law, Hi-soo, who is hardly a wilting wallflower but still has a more conventional feminine hairstyle. | |
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| Power Hair / int_8d85e141 | type |
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Veep: Vice president Selina Myers has a longer version of this in the first two seasons and most of the third, around a medium length, but averted this in the opening montage symbolizing her earlier career aspirations. Amy, her chief of staff, has hair ending slightly longer than hers while Sue, her secretary, has longer hair than both though she keeps it in some sort of bun most of the time. When Selina runs for President in season 3, she gets a shorter haircut. |
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While Kate Kane's Batwoman uniform includes long red hair, that's a wig attached to her cowl. Her actual hairstyle is much shorter. | |
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Adelle De Witt from Dollhouse has slightly longer than average Power Hair by season two, but it's still much shorter than her hair in season one. | |
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In Cardcaptor Sakura, Sonomi, the CEO of an electronic/toy company, wears her hair like this. | |
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The Fairy Godmother in Shrek 2 is actually a Corrupt Corporate Executive (and attempted usurper of the throne through her son) and has silver Power Hair. | |
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Ran's mother in Case Closed, who is a lawyer, mostly has this, although there are some strands that fall in front of her ears. | |
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A rare anime example is Ryoko from The Case Files of Yakushiji Ryoko, who isn't so much a villainess as a self-interested Jerkass 90% of the time, especially in comparison to her rival Yukiko, who has a much more traditional Japanese hairstyle of long black hair pulled back. | |
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Ruthless business mogul Ann Walker in But I'm a Cat Person. Flashbacks show her in pin curls in her youth, with a hairstyle developing over the years until it settles on this one. (Averted with the comic's other major female around the same age, though she's even in politics: Congresswoman Karen Park.) | |
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Mom of Futurama would certainly qualify to many degrees. Her hair may technically not be short but the heart-shaped upright hairdo has pretty much the same effect. | |
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In Orphan Black Rachel Duncan sports some pretty epic power hair. Incidentally, her power haircut is mirrored almost exactly by her rival, Evie Cho. | |
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The Princess Diaries features Julie Andrews as Queen of Genovia. | |
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| Power Hair / int_b30ae4db | type |
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Game of Thrones: A full season after her Traumatic Haircut, Cersei Lannister ascends as the Queen of the Seven Kingdoms. | |
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| Power Hair / int_c4282b71 | type |
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From My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, the Mayor of Ponyville◊. And in Season 3, the Games Inspector from "Games Ponies Play". | |
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| Power Hair / int_cbad9b62 | type |
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| Power Hair / int_cbad9b62 | comment |
Hildegard von Mariendorf of Legend of the Galactic Heroes tends to sport this sort of hairstyle through most of the series, as befits an Iron Lady out to leave her mark on galactic history. | |
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| Power Hair / int_d2d206b6 | type |
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| Power Hair / int_d2d206b6 | comment |
In American Beauty, Carolyn Burnham's methods of "projecting an image of success at all times" was a shock of Power Hair. Notable is that clips of her younger — when Lester describes her as happier — have her hair long. | |
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| Power Hair / int_d4fdfff4 | type |
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| Power Hair / int_d4fdfff4 | comment |
ER's Kerry Weaver cut her hair like this by the fourth season and maintained it like this for a long time afterwards. Even when it was longer, it was a version of this, always being pulled up or back. | |
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| Power Hair / int_db96ded4 | type |
Power Hair | |
| Power Hair / int_db96ded4 | comment |
In Book 4 of The Legend of Korra, Kuvira, self-declared Emperor of the Earth Empire by way of military coup, goes for this haircut. In contrast, her brief previous appearance in Book 3 had much looser hair. Actually it's a subversion, since she tied her hair up in a bun than cutting her hair, as in one episode, her bun becomes undone during her confrontation with Korra and again, in the Grand Finale during the climax between her and Korra. | |
| Power Hair / int_db96ded4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Power Hair / int_db96ded4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Korra | hasFeature |
Power Hair / int_db96ded4 | |
| Power Hair / int_e0f72cac | type |
Power Hair | |
| Power Hair / int_e0f72cac | comment |
Sticky Dilly Buns features Ruby, a recent business studies graduate with strong career ambitions among a cast of rudderless bohemians — who seems to be cultivating a definite power bob. | |
| Power Hair / int_e0f72cac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Power Hair / int_e0f72cac | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sticky Dilly Buns (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Power Hair / int_e0f72cac | |
| Power Hair / int_e293455a | type |
Power Hair | |
| Power Hair / int_e293455a | comment |
Maggie Walsh from Buffy the Vampire Slayer wore her hair like this. | |
| Power Hair / int_e293455a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Power Hair / int_e293455a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Buffy the Vampire Slayer | hasFeature |
Power Hair / int_e293455a | |
| Power Hair / int_e38b5171 | type |
Power Hair | |
| Power Hair / int_e38b5171 | comment |
In Sliding Doors the Helen who catches the train gets one. | |
| Power Hair / int_e38b5171 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Power Hair / int_e38b5171 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sliding Doors | hasFeature |
Power Hair / int_e38b5171 | |
| Power Hair / int_e7e37776 | type |
Power Hair | |
| Power Hair / int_e7e37776 | comment |
Inara's client "The Counselor" from Firefly has hair like this. | |
| Power Hair / int_e7e37776 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Power Hair / int_e7e37776 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Firefly | hasFeature |
Power Hair / int_e7e37776 | |
| Power Hair / int_e97e4f97 | type |
Power Hair | |
| Power Hair / int_e97e4f97 | comment |
Other notable female characters usually known for long hair who have appeared with short hairstyles include Black Widow, Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers), and Catwoman. | |
| Power Hair / int_e97e4f97 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Power Hair / int_e97e4f97 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Black Widow / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Power Hair / int_e97e4f97 | |
| Power Hair / int_f2041376 | type |
Power Hair | |
| Power Hair / int_f2041376 | comment |
Charmed (1998): Penny Halliwell, the fearsome grandmother slash demon hunter, who also Does Not Like Men, is usually portrayed with this hairstyle. Flashbacks to her thirties, when she was a Granola Girl and before the death of her first husband, shows her with long hair in Quirky Curls. Inverted for Prue in terms of power but not in terms of personality. At the start of the series, when she's at her most powerless, her hair is short enough that it gives this impression as she continues the buttoned-up oldest sister persona. As her power grows and she loosens up, her hair grows out until it's nearly waist-length when she's at her most powerful. Subverted in a Bad Future where Prue has become a Corrupt Corporate Executive. She's shown with waist-length hair bleached blonde. Given that she's using her powers for personal gain in said future, a hairstyle that magic would make easier to maintain would be a given. Season 8's "Mr and Mrs Witch" has a Whole-Plot Reference to The Manchurian Candidate, and the demon playing the Eleanor Shaw role has this type of hair. |
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| Power Hair / int_f2041376 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Power Hair / int_f2041376 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Charmed (1998) | hasFeature |
Power Hair / int_f2041376 | |
| Power Hair / int_f67aead0 | type |
Power Hair | |
| Power Hair / int_f67aead0 | comment |
Tarja Halonen, former President of Finland. Unfortunately, this makes her a dead ringer for Conan O'Brien. | |
| Power Hair / int_f67aead0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Power Hair / int_f67aead0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Tonight Show | hasFeature |
Power Hair / int_f67aead0 | |
| Power Hair / int_f7ed2fd7 | type |
Power Hair | |
| Power Hair / int_f7ed2fd7 | comment |
Ursula in The Little Mermaid (1989) had the second variety of Power Hair, made all the more striking when compared to Ariel's billowing cloud of red hair. | |
| Power Hair / int_f7ed2fd7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Power Hair / int_f7ed2fd7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Little Mermaid (1989) | hasFeature |
Power Hair / int_f7ed2fd7 | |
| Power Hair / int_f8a7362 | type |
Power Hair | |
| Power Hair / int_f8a7362 | comment |
Devon King from Midnight Caller does her hair like this in the first season, although she grows it out in the second. | |
| Power Hair / int_f8a7362 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Power Hair / int_f8a7362 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Midnight Caller | hasFeature |
Power Hair / int_f8a7362 |
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