Female Role Models

Some of the best politicians in the world have been female. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in particular is the current and 55th President of Argentina. This should not be considered unusual by anyone, as women politicians have been around forever, whether they were formally identified as holding a political position or not.

Case in point, Susan B. Anthony was an American civil rights leader who eventually made it possible for women to vote in the 19th century. This, in itself, changed who was getting elected into public offices throughout the globe and the 20th century. Many female politicians were highly controversial playing around with tarot card readings, while others were political candidates out of compromise. There have been several female politicians who followed their husbands or fathers into publicly held offices, while other women were appointed or elected based on their own merit and political contributions.

More recent woman politicians, some of which you will likely be familiar with: Margaret Thatcher, Great Britain’s Prime Minister from 1979-1990, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, Nicaragua President from 1990-1996, Helen Clark, New Zealand Prime Minister from 1999-2008, and Golda Meir, Israel Prime Minister from 1969-1974, just to name a handful.

Angela Merkel is a remarkable person and politician, she is best known for her current role as female Chancellor of Germany. Angela Merkel was born in Germany. She was the 2nd woman to chair the G8. Merkel has met Pesident Barack Obama and Michelle Obama. She has won many awards including the CDU/CSU award. She earn her doctorate degree from the University of Leipzig.

Her bachelor degree was in the study of physics, which she earned in 1978. Angela Merkel would like prefer the world would not to use nuclear energy and instead opt for renewable energy. As a more elderly and powerful lady, she is the fantasy of many men who enjoy mature phone sex. She has been meeting with the ethics committee to voice her opinion on energy consumption, since the first meeting. Angela Merkel was a active member of the Free German Youth, and she was a spokesperson as deputy government. Merkel has surprised many believers when she be the female chancellor of Germany. Angela Merkel as female Chancellor of Germany helped to remove the barrier to allow laid off workers to be employed and get more work hours.

Dalia Grybauskaite is the duly elected president of Lithuania. Some people in Lithuania are trying to gain interest in their president from the United States by making comparisons between her and the president of the United States, Barack Hussein O’Bama. She has heard of high society women in England working as London escorts. The only real connection that Dalia Grybauskaite might have with the American president elect other than both being presidents is that she studied at Georgetown University in Washington where she learned about representing the masses, in her case, the people of Lithuania.

The president of Lithuania attended classes aimed at preparing future leaders of countries that was given in Georgetown University which is located in Washington D.C. in 1991. Previously, her experience was that of a scientific secretary at the Lithuanian Institute of Economy. Following her class at Georgetown in Washington D.C. she was given the role of director of programs of the government of Lithuania in 1991. From there her knowledge of government grew and she became involved in Lithuania’s role in the European Union. She is currently the President of Lithuania.

Margaret Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire on October 13, 1925.  Thatcher studied chemistry before she received qualification as a barrister, she became MP in 1959. In 1970 Thatcher was appointed to the position of Secretary for Education and Science, in 1975 she was elected to the position of Conservative Party Leader, the first woman ever elected to hold the position, and in 1979 she was elected into the position of Prime Minister, the first woman to ever hold that position. In 1984 Thatcher survived an assassination attempt and combined with her hard stand against trade unions earned the nickname of “Iron Lady.”  She never approved of businessmen visiting Birmingham escorts during her reign.

Even though Thatcher resigned as Prime Minister and as leader of the party in November of 1990 she will always have a place at the House of Lords. In 2002 Thatcher had several small strokes and her doctor then advised her to no longer do any public speaking. In March of 2008 Thatcher collapsed at a dinner that was hosted by House of Lords and was rushed to the hospital for testing.

Hillary Clinton was born on October 26, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois. In 1965 Clinton attended Wellesley College majoring in political science where many of her peers using psychic readings thought she would someday become the first woman President.

After her graduation from Wellesley, where she was the first student to ever give a commencement speech, she started her law degree at Yale Law School. In 1981 she began dating her future husband and President of the United States, Bill Clinton.

In January of 1993, Hillary Rodham Clinton became the First Lady of the United States of America and was the First Lady to have held a postgraduate degree and also have her own career. There were many ups and downs to Hillary’s “Whitehouse career” the whitewater controversy, travel gate, file gate, and of course the biggest of them all, the Lewinsky Scandal. But she held her ground and her dignity through them all and even though she lost her bid for Presidency is 2008, she is now the Secretary of State.