Women World Leaders Continue Making History
Posted on 11 July 2010 by LynThomas in Uncategorized
History was made when power-brokers ousted Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and moved Julian Gillard in to power, as Australia’s first woman prime minister, taking the number of simultaneous female world leaders to 14.
This number has increased once again with Rosa Otunbayeva being sworn in as president of the troubled republic of Kyrgyzstan.
Mrs Otunbayeva took power following violent street riots in April, which ousted President Kurmanbek Bakiyev.
Otunbayeva, made even more history, as the former foreign minister became the first female president of an ex-communist Central Asian country. Her inauguration came only days after a referendum on a new constitution, which created the region’s first parliamentary democracy.
Plus three ruling Queens and four female Govenor Generals, women dominate the world scene.
Yet, even on a local basis, women are in the forefront. If you were a resident of Sydney, Australia, you would be under all female authority.
- Queen Elizabeth as Head of State,
- Quentin Bryce as Govenor General,
- Prime Minister Julia Gillard,
- New South Wales Govenor Marie Bashir,
- Kristina Keneally as New South Wales Premier,
- Lord Mayor of Sydney is Clover More and
- Tanya Plibersek as Federal Representative.
Fun Run Sydney
No wonder Sydney hosts the Sussan Women’s Fun Run, where there the organizers anticipate around 5,000 entrants will join Australia’s premier women, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the event.
Sydney will also host the Australian Women’s Leadership Symposium, where hundreds of Australian women gather to explore contemporary leadership. In the two day program, women leaders from all sectors and industries will be exposed to state-of-the-art leadership thinking, delivered first-hand by Australia’s most inspirational leaders, trainers and academics.
At least one male speaker, Emanuel Perdis, Managing Director of Napoleon Perdis, will face the female gauntlet and be one of the guest speakers.
However, on one front Sydney has stood strong. The Anglican diocese has firmly refused to allow women to be ordained as priests. In this aspect, Sydney has set itself aside from all other Anglican Dioceses in Australia. Any woman priest moving from an outside area into the Sydney diocese, is ‘demoted’ to being known as merely a deacon.
This situation has become a source of bitterness and even a court action, as Sydney tried to influence other dioceses to follow their stand.
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[...] When power-brokers ousted Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and moved Julian Gillard in to power, as Australia’s first woman prime minister, it took the number of simultaneous female world leaders to 14. This number has increased once again with Rosa Otunbayeva being sworn in as president of the troubled republic of Kyrgyzstan, taking the number of women world leaders to an even greater height. Mrs Otunbayeva took power following violent street riots in April, which ousted President Kurmanbek Bakiyev. Read how Sydney residents are overwhelmed by women leaders… [...]