Cristina Kirchner is the current President of Argentina. She assumed office in December 2007, taking over from her husband Néstor Kirchner who was President from May 2003 to December 2010. And as the story goes, Cristina won the election by a comfortable margin. That meant, the President on retirement, became the First Gentleman of Argentina.
That’s a real tale. Hillary Clinton almost wrote the same story too, but not quite. So one gets wondering, what’s all this fuss about ‘upliftment’ of women. What’s all the noise of women and emancipation? In India, many women even in senior positions of corporate, academia and politics have an attitude that the men are out to ‘get them’; and in many cases they are. But isn’t it unreasonable to spend your years fighting when instead following successful examples would have made life much easier. It really isn’t a battle of the sexes as many women like to keep it: a fight for you v/s me; good v/s evil; strong v/s weak and the list may go on.
Michelle Obama has begun addressing audiences of women after becoming the first lady, like she did recently in London on the sidelines of G20. Our Indian ladies that are caught up in battle with the courts just for the sake of the fight need to stop and listen to successful women like Michelle, Cristina or Indora Nooyi. Our country would move ahead quicker. The rules of success don’t care if you’re man or woman. They just need to be applied with a purpose at hand.
Hope the ladies in the current elections take a leaf out of the Presidential office in Buenos Aires.
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whom is this blog targeted to?
women.
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