WOMEN LEADERSHIP



Recently I read in the newspaper regarding USA presidential election 2016 and the candidates stood for it. Here I have no intention to discuss about Bobby Jindal remarks on Indian American origin. The most interesting topic is that the world biggest economy and the most developed economy has only two women candidate in the list. One the very famous Hillary Clinton, Former Secretary of State and wife of Former President Bill Clinton and the other one Carly Fiorina who belongs to Business World before she stepped in for election. Refer the candidates of 2016 below:




Well!!! This is not new in the American history. Over a span of 239 years since it got freedom on 4th July, 1776, we have not seen any women president. When a country like India, Turkey, Ireland, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Canada, France, England and Germany have embraced women presidents and prime ministers then why yet women are not acceptable in American political system as supreme commando. Is this, the real face of the most powerful nation who seeks for gender equality but still they consider men as the strong gender to hold a post like-President of United States of America?

Why women always been in the testing laboratory and in spite they showcased their talent in all spheres still they are questionable to take up big responsibilities. In AD 1236 Sultan Iltutmish’s daughter, Raziyya became sultan because she was more capable than her brothers as per chronicler “Minhaj –i-Siraj” records but she removed from the throne in AD 1240. This incident of India’s medieval history shows the mentality of men who cannot afford to see women super ceding them. Queen Rudrama devi (AD 1262-1289), of the Kakatiya dynasty of Warangal (now a part of modern Telangan) changed her name and pretended herself as a man in order to rule without any revolts. Another Queen “Didda” who ruled in Kashmir from AD 980-AD 1003, her title comes from a word “didi”. If we look into our ancient history, when women were the part of all sabhas and their opinions were also taken into account, even then we have hardly seen any prominent women rulers in that period. In modern times many social thinker came who fought for women liberalisation, education, social scepticisms and freedom from seclusion.  As a result women are taking competitive challenges in the society today.

We all have heard about our first Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi but how she became is quite interesting to share. On a sudden death of Lal Bahadur Shastri, discussions were going on for next PM. Morarji Desai was in a queue but all senior leaders of congress backed Indira Gandhi with an expectation that she will follow their advice. Gradually, however, Indira Gandhi attempted to assert her position within the government and party. This independent way of working gave her much turbulence. One where she needs to fight with “syndicate”, a group of powerful and influential leaders from within the congress and on the other side she needs to work towards regaining the congress prestige that lost in 1967 elections. All steps taken by her and the personality she carried gave her “iron lady” name but in reality she was fighting to let everybody know that women are not weak and nobody can suppress her. This could be most probably gave her the feeling of insecurity and henceforth, emergency came into force. Making error in a role is significant and that error doesn’t look to the gender. Today there may be a hot topic to discuss “whether emergency in India was actually needed or not during Indira Gandhi regime?” in political arena but bygones are bygones and let’s move forward with an intention for not making politics so personalised that our politicians start poisoning each other in particular and country in general.

In the business world most highlighted story in this respect was about Kiran Mazumdar Shaw who studied fermentation science, and train to be a brew master like her father, a very non-traditional field for a woman. She even looked for the scope in India but didn’t get hired because “It’s a man work” here. She started Biocon India in 1978 after training in the same field from Scotland and Ireland. Initially she faced a credibility challenges because she was young woman in an untested field, even hiring a staff was a difficulty being a woman in the biotech business as a lead. But she showed her stamina, courage, patience and belief; and as a result her company become the first Indian company to export enzymes to Europe and United States.


In the country like US where women are more liberal, free and independent then why that economy not engendered a single woman president yet? Why less women candidate stood for the presidential election? Why not US media focused on this topic so far? Why can’t a woman be a president and a world leader? These many questions are coming to my mind. I have heard many past interviews of women candidates for president ship and they themselves faced and said that they are always been highlighted but men candidates are not so on a testing mode always. Women candidate need to be vigilant, focused, smart all the time because everybody from media to masses are of an opinion that women couldn’t fit to this highest responsibility. Anyways!! Hillary Clinton managed to answer smartly to all twist and turn questions for coming election. Now it’s time to give a serious thought by the US citizens’, media persons and government on women leadership in their political system. It’s a country where most talented people live even they hire from the other countries. Hence, people themselves need to skilfully elicit the best woman candidate for the post of President .Moreover, to make the “theory of choice” happen many more woman candidate should stand for the election. It’s true that President of US is not only country’s head but also a world leader and woman can be the best option because she is not only a soft power but as well as a hard power. The basic difference is simply that she knows when to use both the powers.













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