I dont want to take away from current threads receiving a lot of discussion, but the election of a woman to the presidency of Liberia last week and yesterday in Chile, certainly is cause for celebration. These women are well educated and dedicated to bringing about peace, harmony and higher living standards for their people. The new president of Chile is a single mother, a medical doctor, and previously a political prisoner under pinochet's bastard regime. Her father's death occured while being held in pinochet's prisons for politcal reasons.
Change is on the way.!! And it is good!

We shall see and all we can do is hope that this change is a positive one and accepted as such by the people she will govern and not the way our own leaders are underminded by those not satisfied/stroked by their actions...Pray for these women!

Norma, I curious about this new woman president. Can you tell me more about her, her views on economics, religion, and social issues as well as education. Since she is a woman surely she has views on how the women of her country can better themselves to lift their status out of the oppression that many foreign nations face.

Norma,
This is a very intersting topic about the women president in Liberia . I saw this on the news tonight how she wants to turn the country around . This we should watch and wait to see how this will turn out for her . I know the President of Liberia her life has been theatened and she has arm guards from American protecting her . I heard .

I had not hear about the new women president of chile . Good post Norma . I like this one.

Here's a link to an interesting article about women advancing:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0117/p08s02-comv.html

Also, for those intersted:

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Ladybug and Nancy..
the new president of Chile, is Michelle Bachelet, 54 years old, a pediatrician, mother of three, single. Not only did her father die (heart attack as the result of torture)while in custody under Pinochet's dictatorship, her mother was also arrested. Bachelet was arrested as a political prisoner and tortured, she was eventually able to go into exile outside of Chile.

The dictatorship of Pinochet came into force after a violent overthrow of the legal democratic election of Allende in 1973. It is truly sickening what has happened in too many nations during the past fifty years because of various dictatorships and secret police forces.

Michelle Bachelet apparently served as minister for health, and defense in the recent outgoing government of Chile.

Liberia has had an ongoing war for the past 14 years, and this new president 67 year old Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, wants an end to the violence and corruption that has been destroying her people, her nation. She also had to go into exile, escaping execution that apparently was the fate of too many in her country .... .

A couple of interesting side notes, is that Liberia was founded by freed black slaves from the US, and Bachelet in Chile defeated a billionaire in her bid for the presidency.....

[ January 17, 2006, 03:00 PM: Message edited by: norma ]

Norma,
Thanks for filling me in on this . I will keep a watch on the news of these women . This is a wonderful topic and a calm one.

My apologizes Dotsie, for being late in saying thank you for this other information.

There's really nothing more i can add to this topic though, except to say I believe men and women are equally capable of being the wisest of leaders if given equal opportunity to knowledge and authority, and equally capable of betraying the trust extended to them.

But maybe with more women visible in leadership roles, the continued neglect of the education of so many girls in certain areas will lessen, and maybe, just maybe women themselves in certain parts of this world will stop butchering little girls through "female circumsion", (although that has not been a problem in Chile or Liberia ). And maybe in certain parts of the world when women (and men) say, rape is a crime, honour killings are a crime, more people will sit up and take notice. And maybe in all parts of the world, certain young women will realize they have more going for them
as women, than just their sexual appeal.

[ January 18, 2006, 04:42 AM: Message edited by: norma ]

Amen!

Norma, it sounds like the people of Chile made an intelligent choice for their president.

This sounds like a woman who can really claim to be in touch with the common man considering all of her experiences.