A Presidenta is No Panacea, But …
Having a Woman Leader Still Rocks
“No man will hand the presidency to his wife,” my grandmother assured me a year before Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, dressed in bridal white, took the presidential baton from her husband and ushered in a new era of Argentine politics in 2007. As her inaugural speech boomed out from speakers on the street in the December heat, women watching grinned at each other in joy and disbelief: a woman being sworn in as “Presidenta“-our world had changed. The knowledge that a woman can lead the country, the pride this generates, …
