With 95% of the top executive jobs run by men, and almost 97% of leadership. Women in the front seat haven’t been really tested. Take for example even wonder woman, even in her own movie. The strongest and fastest but she isn’t taking leading well everyone. And let’s not forget Hillary Clinton’s shock loss against Donald Trump(Trumponomics was almost inevitable), most people, in general, that is both sexes haven’t yet accepted women as leaders or even the most hardworking. How awful, I mean they have been giving birth to mankind since forever, taking care of the family(including men) and working all at the same time for thousands of years. How biased of us, given we haven’t really tested women leadership. Imagine this only 25 of the fortune 500 companies(biggest in the world) are led by women.
Let us prove women work hard with results and intelligence. We shouldn’t forget especially the former Liberian president, from Africa!!! With Germany showing their biased to physics and engineering with Angela Merkel. Cleopatra from Egypt and of course Madam Macron first lady of France with all its fashion glamour, pushing her husband to French president Emmanuel Macron aged 41.shes achieved all this at 66 years old(yes age is just a number) And my favourite Mary mother of the Baby Jesus! Let us introduce our Daughter of the soil, her Excellency from Liberia.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (born 29 October 1938) is the 24th President of Liberia from 2006 to 2018. Sirleaf was the first elected female head of state in Africa.
Born in Monrovia to a Gola father and Kru-German mother, Sirleaf was educated at the College of West Africa before moving to the United States, where she studied at Madison Business College and Harvard University. She returned to Liberia to work as Deputy Minister of Finance from 1971 to 1974 and been promoted to minister of finance from 1979 to 80. later went to work for the World Bank. She returned to work for the late president Tolbert’s government again as deputy minister of Finance before being promoted to the post of Minister of Finance from 1979 to 1980. After Samuel Doe seized power in a coup d’état and executed Tolbert, Sirleaf fled to the United States. She worked for Citibank and then the Equator Bank before returning to Liberia to contest a senatorial seat for Montserrado county in the disputed 1985 elections.
After returning to Liberia, Sirleaf ran for office, and finished in second place at the 1997 presidential election won by Charles Taylor. She won the 2005 presidential election and took office on 16 January 2006. She was re-elected in 2011. In June 2016, she was elected as the Chair of the Economic Community of West African States, making her the first woman to hold the position since it was created.
In 2011, Sirleaf was jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with Leymah Gbowee of Liberia and Tawakkol Karman of Yemen. The three women were recognized “for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work.
Sirleaf was conferred the Indira Gandhi Prize by Indian President Pranab Mukherjee on 12 September 2013. In 2016, she was listed as the 83rd-most powerful woman in the world by Forbes magazine.
For women out there get in the driving seat, the sky is the limit. For men lets stand back and watch!!
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