Where are you Ms. President?

In the year 2012, we still have yet to have a woman president in the US. We have not even a Serious Female Presidential Candidate in the Primaries, It's embarrassing really.

Here are a list of countries that have had or have female Heads of State - England, Ireland, Switzerland, Finland, Iceland, Germany, Argentina, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Haiti, Panama, Chile, Costa Rica, Brazil, Indonesia, Guyana, Liberia, Sri Lanka, India, China, The Philippines, Latvia, Serbia, Lithuania, and Kosovo. 

So if a supposed "Third World" Country can be forward thinking enough to recognize the value that women also have in leadership positions; so should the supposed most advanced country in the world.

We live in the "Land of Opportunity." I truly believe the opportunity is there for a Woman as well. Leaders are not born they are developed. Just like JFK was developed to become a president so should a Woman be Developed into a Leader.

Women Voting can make it Happen!

Don't Stop Believing

Don't Stop Believing (Journey Cover) by thecoolers

The O Revolution

Oprah Winfrey has been one of the most influential women in the last 3 decades.


Born in 1954 in Mississippi.
She began her broadcasting career in Radio while still in high school. At the age of 19, she became a television anchor for local stations in Nashville then Baltimore. In the 1980s she broke through to Daytime Talk Show Hosting.


In 1985, she had her debut acting role as Sofia in The Color Purple.


In 1988, she started HarpO studios which have produced movies like The Great Debaters. In 2000, She began the philanthropic Oprah's Angel Network the the O Magazine. She retired from daytime talk show in March of 2011 after she started her own television network - OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network.


She is the richest "self made" woman and is said to be "the most powerful women in the world."

Empowering vs. Enabling

It is an important distinction - one that I feel many women do not make.

Doing something for someone else is often quicker and easier in the short run than teaching them how to do something for themselves. 


I think women in general are "pleasers." They don't want to cause waves or ruffle feathers. So in order to avoid conflict, they do too much for others when they should be doing it for themselves. 

You may give them guidance when needed and help them at times but the measure of a STRONG woman is not how much she takes on but rather how much strength she passes on to others by teaching them and giving them the support they need to be the best they can be.

So whether it is teaching, coaching, supervising, or parenting - it is always better to empower someone to learn how to be good at something rather than doing if for them and enabling them to stay ignorant, weak, or lazy. 

Women's Equality was just a joke

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964  prohibits discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
The word "sex" was not in the original wording of the Act. During the debate of the Civil Rights Act on the House floor, Congressman Howard Smith of Virginia mockingly offered the one word amendment to the Act. This led to several hours of debate, later called "ladies day in the House", after which the amendment did pass.

Smith was a staunch conservative and opponent of the Act and made the amendment as a ploy to have the entire bill shot down. 

Smith later confessed to his colleague, Congresswoman Martha Griffiths, "Martha, I’ll tell you the truth. I offered it as a joke."


"The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source." ~ Lucretia Motts

One of the biggest moments in the Woman's Movement was made by an opponent only as a joke - That idea backfired!

Miss Independent (Cover) by LMohlenkamp

Battle of the Sexes

Bobby Riggs was a world champion tennis player in 1939 and retired from professional tennis in the 1950's. He boasted of his superior male attributes. He planned to prove men were better athletes; when he challenged a top female tennis on the professional circuit, Billie Jean King, in a dual on the tennis court.

The winner would walk away with a $100,000 winner-take-all prize. The match occurred in Sept. 20, 1973 at the Houston Astrodome and televised worldwide. 

The 29 year old, Billie Jean King defeated the 55 year old, Bobby Riggs in straight sets 6-4, 6-3, 6-3.

This became one of the most talked about events in U.S. sports history and virtually ended Bobby Riggs' career.

 

At the time, women titlist made significantly less than men with the same professional ranking. After this win, Women Tennis Players began to earn more equatable pay for their winnings.  

The Will to Survive

It is hard at times to weather the difficulties of life.

It is often easier in the short term to just give up but you are robbing yourself of long term riches when doing so. NO one's life is free of heartache, loss, and despair. The attitude with which we choose to face life's difficulties however is the true test of character ~ some fail that test while others succeed. 

They say the true gauge of a wonderful life is not how much you are given in life as far as blessings go but rather how well you overcome the challenges that present themselves as obstacles to a blessed life. 

We may not have a choice of what happens to us in life BUT we always have a choice of how we let it affect us. 

Always have the Will to Survive ~ Fight for a great Life and you shall be given it. 

I Will Survive. Gloria Gaynor Cover (Live) by Strawberry Riley