The history of the world is filled with women success stories. Though they could not get equal opportunity in every walk of their lives, they made a distinct and special place in history of human race.
Ingrid Mattson, a Canadian Muslim convert professor and activist and the current president of the Islamic Society of North America, said,
Our history is not a history of the marginalization and exclusion of women. Our history is a history of the empowerment of women. We’re not trying to invent something new. We’re trying to pick up where we left off.
Who can forget Sarah B. Knowles, the writer and animal rights activist; Jane Addams, a founder of the Settlement House Movement and first woman to receive noble prize; Clare Boothe Luce, a U.S. Congresswoman and ambassador to Italy?
The women who have been considered as second citizen are writing success stories in their professional lives. Furthermore, women are lagging behind men in the fields that were earlier owned, ruled by them.
Yes! In the present scenario, I am going to mention few names who are role models for all of us and who contributed a lot towards society. Women have come a lone way but we still have a very long way to go before we have an equal share of the real power in this world.
According to news reports, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, popularly known as Latin Hillary Clinton and the wife of Argentina’s president, Nestor Kirchner, has become the first woman to be elected as president in Argentina’s history.
In the starting of this year, Pratibha Patil wins the most prestigious position of becoming president of India despite many obligations and charges created by opposition parties here. In her victory speech, Patil said her election will be a boost to millions of Indian women.
In the neighboring Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan like a fighter who is standing firmly against undemocratic ruling of Pakistan. Despite being attacked by Suicide bomber, she is ready with her campaign plans to establish democracy in Pakistan.
In Africa, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, a Harvard-educated economist and former World Bank official won presidential election, last year. In Philippines, President Gloria Arroyo has been re-elected for the post of President in 2004 again by the people who were very much satisfied with her initiative to eradicate poverty there.
In the nut shell, many women work hard in the background to support male members of the family, and this makes them lose out on the most visible, and most profitable positions in their life’s career.
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