It has been with the largest economy in Europe for 11 years now.
Good old Britannia just returned to it with May in July. FIFA has it.
The UN would have it. And the USA is likely to join come November with Hillary Rodham Clinton. Many American women and girls are now singing: ‘A woman’s place is in the White House.’
Hillary is poised to return there, buoyed by B3 (Bernie, Bill & Barack) convention speeches.
Hope is that she’s not undone by the email popularised in ‘information superhighway’ by Albert Arnold Gore Jr of husband William Jefferson Clinton’s digi-economic miracle administration.
If she wins and the UN gets a woman S-G, you can delete the ‘almost’ from the above title. It would be a woman’s world ruled by women.
You can’t expect a motherland congress woman’s rule, though. That woman specie support women abusers. They are aloof when vulnerable children, disabled and able, are denied state resources they women of congress co-preside over.
Children have been at the receiving end of congress women’s heartlessness. A congress woman ruled motherland will kill us all.
The situation may, however, be redeemed, that is: a motherland woman’s world may be realised through the efforts of the Osono woman or CPP woman or some other political organisation far away from congress.
Asia leads in making the woman’s world.
Maybe more accidental than designed dynastic practices there, unarguably, makes the region world pacesetter role on their women. Widows succeeded husbands and daughters followed fathers. It had begun in 1960 with Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike becoming Prime Minister of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).
Her daughter, Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, was the first woman to serve as the country’s president.
Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines, was thrust into leadership when husband Senator Benigno Ninoy Aquino was murdered. (Some years after she had finished her term, her son Benigno “NoyNoy” Aquino also ascended to the presidency). Korea and Thailand have had their turns of women leaders.
Daughters Indira Gandhi (father Jawaharlal Nehru) and Benazir Bhutto (father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto) stepped into dads’ shoes. Benazir’s father had been hanged by brutal military dictator, Zia ul Haq. The two women headed governments in India and Pakistan respectively.
Bangladesh has lived under a two-woman, alternating in the nation’s leadership, for some time now.
The women juggernaut duo are Sheikh Hasina Waled and Begum Khaleda Zia. The latter was once first lady when husband Ziaur Rahman was ceremonial president.
Brazil’s President Dilma Vana Rousseff may be under siege with impeachment and removal. Nonetheless, this is not to belittle the fact that South America has had its share of the women of dynastic and other rule. Veronica Michelle Bachellet Jeria was the first South American woman presidents independent of husband or father. Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was preceded by the first, Maria Estela Isabel Martinez de Peron.
The whole father daughter and husband wife pattern defies a true ‘behind every successful woman is a man.’ It rather reverberates Alexander Adum Kwapong’s ‘In front of every successful woman is a man.’
Israel’s Golda Meier was among the earliest; and Nordic countries have had their fair share. Canada’s Kim Campbell was a blip. And Australia’s Julia Gillard was close to a flash-in-pan blips
Africa lags seriously behind with a token Liberian Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and a ‘regent’ Joyce Banda of Malawi.
No motherland woman of the stature of men luminary leaders Kwame Nkrumah, Alex Quaison-Sackey, and Kofi Anan yet.
Forget congress forcing its way into a feat like that. They have so far played a poisoning role of churning out a series of the anti-woman destroyer of womanhood in appointment to public offices.
We of the woman’s cause await for a President Hillary Rodham Clinton as Number 45 of the powerful motherland USA.
Motherland rotten congress womanfolk couldn’t be bothered about such feat. They’d rather go for Imelda’s one thousand shoes bought with stolen state funds. Women of congress will certainly be missing in a roll call of women world rulers; the osono woman, for sure, perhaps soon.
Women leaders fight wars men would fight, they get called war mongers. Often, they are labelled expletively; unflatteringly called ‘worst dictator in history,’ ‘Lady Hitler,’ ‘Iron Lady’ or something like that. Indira raided temple Amristar; and Thatcher subdued Falkland Islands. Men would have.
Woman rules the world seems sexagenarian too. Excepting FIFA’s Fatma Samba Diouf at 54, Theresa May will turn 60 October. Angela Merkel is 67, and Hillary is 68, 69 in October. IMF’s Christine Lagarde is 60. UN Secretary-General contender Helen Clark (New Zealand) is 66. Contestant Irina Bokova (France) is 64. Suddenly, Constitutions across the world may begin seeing sixty or sixties as the ripe age for leadership.
I can, in clarity, see the woman rule, congress women excluded, happening in my lifetime.
By Kwasi Ansu-Kyeremeh