Women World Leaders - Softcover

Liswood, Laura

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0044409052 ISBN 13: 9780044409052

Publisher: Pandora, 1996

Synopsis

Using interviews with fifteen former and present women heads of state, analyses the obstacles women face as politicians and examines their impact on the status of women in their countries

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From the Back Cover:

om the biographers at the start to the incisive interviews, the cumulative effect is one of feminine power at its highest; a timely and privileged entry into the corridors of power.’
BIRMINGHAM POST

There are over a dozen women living in the world today who are or have been leaders of their country. They include (as pictured left to right):
· Corazon Aquino (former President, The Philippines)
· Sirimavo Bandaranaike (former Prime Minister, Sri Lanke)
· Benazir Bhutto (Prime Minister, Pakistan)
· Violetta Chamorro (President, Nicaragua)
· Gro Harlem Brundtland (Prime Minister, Norway)
· Vigdis Finnbogadottir (President, Iceland)
· Eugenia Charles (Prime Minister, Dominica)
· Tansu Ciller (Prime Minister, Turkey)
· Edith Cresson (former Prime Minister, France)
· Khaleda Zia (Prime Minister, Bangladesh)
· Maria Liberia-Peters (former Prime Minister, Netherlands Antilles)
· Kazimiera Prunskiene (former Prime Minister, Lithuania)
· Mary Robinson (President, Ireland)
· Margaret Thatcher (former Prime Minister, United Kingdom)
· Hanna Suchoko (former Prime Minister, Poland)

In an unprecedented journey through the highest political echelons across the world, Laura Liswood conducted one-to-one interviews with each of these fifteen women. Never before has there been such a complete document of women as world leaders; each politician has a riveting story of her own, and together they form a stunning collection.

Synopsis:

The author talks to 15 women throughout the world who are, or have been, leaders of their country. Each has a story of her own, revealing cultural diversities, successes and failures, dramas and tragedies. In a journey which took her into the corridors of power around the world, Laura Liswood conducted one-to-one interviews with all 15 women world leaders. Using this material, Liswood analyses the obstacles these politicians have faced in attaining high office, examines whether, once in power, they have been able to further the cause of women in their countries, and assesses the differences between male and female leaders.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pandora
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0044409052
• ISBN 13: 9780044409052
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256