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    Growing number of female world leaders emerging
    [ 2007-11-22 09:49 ]

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    Until relatively recently, female world leaders have been few and far between. But, as VOA's Stephanie Ho reports, their ranks are growing, with a number of prominent women in different countries stepping up to the world stage.

    The small club of female world leaders is about to get a new member: Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, the president-elect of Argentina.

    Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner

    Fernandez called on her compatriots to get used to the idea of having a "presidenta," a female president, leading the country.

    And she is not alone in Latin America. Last year, Michelle Bachelet was the first woman to be elected president in neighboring Chile. Female candidates are also expected to contest elections in Brazil and Paraguay.

    Some experts think one reason there are more women in high office around the world is because women have been actively increasing their political involvement over the past several decades.

    "Since the development of the modern women's rights movement, the global women's movement, and changes in gender relations since the mid 1960s, 1970s, we're seeing more women having careers in public life," said Sarah Brewer of American University's Women and Politics Institute.

    Africa also has its female leaders. Liberia's president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, is one of the few women to have addressed a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress.

    "I stand before you today as the first woman elected to lead an African nation," said Ms. Sirleaf.

    And President Bush just awarded Ellen Johnson Sirleaf the presidential medal of freedom, America's highest civilian award.

    In Asia, Gloria Arroyo in the Philippines and Pratibha Patil in India hold the presidency. Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto has returned to the political mainstream in Pakistan.

    And in military-ruled Burma, Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is a political force, even though she has been under house arrest for 12 of the past 18 years.

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel In August, Forbes business magazine put German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the top of its list of the world's 100 most powerful women.

    "She is the first female chancellor of Germany since Germany became a nation state in 1871, and she's increasingly wielding her clout around the globe," explained Forbes senior editor Elizabeth McDonald.

    Female politicians sometimes have the reputation for toughness, notably Golda Meir in Israel. Andrew Pierce, a political commentator with Britain's Telegraph newspaper, also points to former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher.

    "In public, she [Thatcher] was always the iron lady. She was tough. They have to be tough. They have to be strong and be tough as the men, probably tougher," said Pierce.

    Hillary Clinton is demonstrating that toughness in her campaign for the American presidency.

    But is the United States ready for its first female president? American University's Brewer thinks it is.

    "But one of the things that's challenging, I think, for women, is this assumption around needing to do it better, needing to sort of raise the bar," said Brewer.

    She says that women who seek high office should be judged for their talents and merits, and not feel they somehow have to be better, or stronger, than men.

    (Source: VOA  英語(yǔ)點(diǎn)津姍姍編輯)

     
     
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