Meet Pratibha Patil.
There is a group that keeps track of women's progress in electoral politics worldwide. I cannot recall lit offhand, but here is an interesting contrast:
"In 2005, women were legally barred from running for president in Iran. One of the only countries where a woman has run for head of state is in Algeria with the 2004 presidential candidacy of Louisa Hanoun, leader of the left-wing Algeria's Worker's Party. Hanoun, however, only placed fifth out of a six-person race. Moreover, only 51 percent of those participants in the Arab Human Development Report poll said that women have the right to become head of state."
Saturday, July 21, 2007
India Has First Female President
