Sunday, February 23, 2014
Women in Politics
I am not born in this country, but lived here most of my life and one thing that I'm sure bothers most of the community is that we never had a Women President. It is the 21st century and I believe that it is time for this country to witness a change. I enjoy the lifestyle here rather than any other country, I love the freedom to wear anything I want rather than thinking what someone will say on the street, I enjoy the freedom to choose what I want to be in the future rather than being pressurized into a specific, I absolutely find it a privilege to live in this country, but it has, it is and will always bother me that we haven't had our first female president. I just find it shocking that countries that you would never expect have had a female president, but not us. We call ourselves one of the developed and modern countries, but are really. If we accept the image of a women working in a specific field or running the country, how are we ever gonna be that "modern" country. I think it is time for the people in the nation to understand that women can run the country as well as a household. We need to believe and move ahead with this idea and break this norm.
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I completely agree. I am very interested in politics and I find it interesting and saddening that we haven't had a female president yet. I do however think it is coming soon.
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ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you, there have been other countries that are not as 'developed' that have had female presidents, this is something which we are seriously lagging in. I really hope that one day I can see a woman president. It really bothers me that so much of the justification for not having a woman president is that she would be unable to run a country because she would be too emotional or would start wars just because she is PMSing (both obviously untrue).
It reminded me of something Isabel Allende said when asked why she thinks women should have a bigger role in running the world: "Well, we tried the other thing and look at where it got us"