Today is International Women's Day.
American media pays attention to cosmetic appearances and externalities rather than political empowerment, educational equality and economic equity.
We still have men thinking they are better than women in academia even if the woman is more qualified than their lesser qualified male counterparts who blow hot air.
In traditional values, outspoken, intelligent, able women are perceived to emasculate the insecure male.
Examine Sri Lanka (previously Ceylon). That nation elected a woman as the first female Prime Minister of a democratic nation in the world.
She was Prime minister of Sri Lanka three times: from July 21, 1960 to March 27, 1965; from May 29, 1970 to July 23, 1977 and from Nov. 14, 1994 to Aug. 10, 2000 when she died.
Sadly, when she first took power there was a chauvinistic, male-dominated parliament who even stooped down to the level of saying, “If she is made prime minister, we will have to rinse her seat once a month.'
Has traditional America been any better than Ceylon was in 1960?
It is doubtful that a majority of the “she is inferior because she is a woman, she has to be a wife, cookie baker, homemaker, sperm receptacle, librarian, teacher or secretary' beliefs will ever be overcome in so-called moral-values states which have the highest divorce rates in the nation.
Will we ever elect a strong woman like Elizabeth Dole or Margaret Thatcher as president given our states' values?
— Mano Ratwatte, Price College of Business instructor
Let's see I am (or have been) 6 of the 7 things on this list...is this a bad thing or does it just mean I'll never be president?
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