Women today

In these last three decades we can see how, little by little, women have getting involved in high position dealing with the responsibility of taking critical decisions. In the past, tough women that got involved in leadership activities usually inherited their positions. Today women do not need to be part of a prestigious, powerful, and rich family in order to become a leader, but instead they have to experience and follow more tortuous routes.

Recently in Brazil, Dilma Rousseff obtained victory in the presidential election. She is now part of an increasing list of women worldwide who are leading the way to give women more opportunities and a broader horizon. Some of the most famous women are:

·        Indira Gandhi in 1966 was elected to lead India. She helped to steer India.

·        Golda Meir in 1969 was called out of retirement to lead Israel.

·        Margaret Thatcher in 1979 was elected as Prime Minister for eleven years in England. She was known as the Iron Lady. During her period she permitted the increase in privatization, and also she lived the collapse of the Soviet Union.

·        Corazon Aquino in 1986 became President of the Philippines after the assassination of her husband Benigno Aquino.

·        Benazir Bhutto in 1988 was the first woman to be elected premier of a Muslim country, Pakistan

·        Angela Markel in 2005 was the first woman to lead the European state, Germany. As a Germany’s Chancellor she was underestimated by her colleagues for years.

·        Shelk Hasina in 2008 was elected to lead Bangladesh. Her father led the country after its independence in 1971.

We can see that women can not only assume positions with high levels of responsibility, but they can also perform a remarkable job. Female Heads of Gobernment