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Let Indian Woman Show Leadership Qualities to World

February 27, 2010 By

There is no better place in the world then INDIA to prove Women leadership works.

Now world should think before even claiming that in India women are not given equal rights seeing our political system.

  • “I am not a woman prime minister,” Indira Gandhi liked to say during her many years as India’s leader. “I am a prime minister.”

    Now nobody can even claim women are not given equal rights atleast seeing our political system.

    The top 10 women leaders in political system have shown their caliber, talent and passion throughout making their leadership value count are

  • Sonia Gandhi : The President of the Indian National Congress Party(NCP), was married to Rajeev Gandhi in 1969. Now a widow of former Prime Minister of India, Sonia was named the sixth most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.

    • The first woman President of India (President Poll -2007)

  • Pratibha Patil on july 21 ,2007,became first Woman president of India, largest democracy of the world when Mrs. Patil won by a margin of 3,06,810 votes defeating NDA supporting nominee, bhairon singh Shekhawat.’.She enjoyed an electrifying victory as she managed to secure 442 votes from both houses of parliament.

  • Mamta Banerjee : Currently heads Indian Railways Ministry and is the founder and chief executive of the All India Trinamool Congress Party. Later, she was also made the Youth Affairs and Sport, Union Minister of State for Human Resources Development and Women and Child Development

  • Sheila Dixit : Sheila Dixit, belonging to the Indian National Congress, is the Chief Minister of Delhi since 1998.


  • Mayawati Kumari: the current Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, is the highest income tax payer among all politicians in India.

  • Uma Bharti :held various state-level portfolios in India including Youth Affairs & Sports, Human Resource Development, Tourism and Coal &Mines.

  • Sushma Swaraj : A lawyer by profession, was elected as a member of Rajya Sabha in 1990. Later, she became the Minister of Information and Broadcasting and president of Hindu Sahitya Sammelan for Four years.

  • Vasundhra Raje the daughter of Rajmata Vijayraje Scindia and Jivaji Rao Scindia of Gwalior, entered the politics in 1984. Besides being the first women Chief Minister of Rajasthan, she was the Minister of State for External Affairs.

  • Brinda Karat was the first women member of the Communist Party of India. She has also been the general secretary of the All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) from 1993 to 2004 and thereafter its Vice President

  • Mehbooba Mufti : The president of the Jammu and Kashmir people Democratic Party, is the daughter of the former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Mufti Mohmmad Sayeed

  • To further strengthen my point:

    • Many believe that bias against women lngers in the business world, particularly when it comes to evaluating their leadership ability.Here are some facts:

    Forbes The 100 Most Powerful Women

    Rank Name Position Country
    13 Sonia Gandhi President, Indian National Congress Party India
    20 Chanda Kochhar Chief executive, ICICI Bank India
    92 Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Chairman, Biocon India

  • Women Leadership in World:

    • Two are in power today President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in the Philippines and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Bangladesh both are known for their toughness and combativeness

    Experts say these leaders have done little to advance the causes associated with women’s rights; they have not, with a few possible exceptions, governed differently from men, and they have not broken a path to the top that other women have followed.

    “There is no doubt that the rise of female leaders is linked to their being members of prominent families: they are all the daughters, wives, or widows of former government heads or leading oppositionists,” according to the German report.

    Society in many places is becoming more Westernized, with a breakdown in family structures that liberates women from traditional roles in the household and accords them greater respect in the public arena.

    Perhaps if their number reached a critical mass, female leaders would have more leeway to pursue policies that favor the equality of women, the nurturing of families and a less confrontational style of leadership, said Dewi Fortuna Anwar, director for programs and research at the Habibie Center, an independent policy institute in Indonesia.

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    Sources:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/08/world/asia/08iht-asiawomen.html

    Harvard Business Review

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    1. urvashi says:
      February 27, 2010 at 5:35 pm

      Excellent Article,which prove itself where there is a will there is a way.Women Constitute half of the population of the world.They deserve half of total empowerment in all fields-political,Social,economic, judicial.

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      February 27, 2010 at 7:56 pm

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