Africa-Press – Mauritius. Independence Day in March is a key event at national level, and Women’s International Day is undoubtedly of paramount importance to assess the emancipation of women from the shackles of underdevelopment and male overlordship.
Feminists and pen-pushers in the Mauritian press hint at gender-based violence as one of the main scourges undermining society, and for reasons best known to themselves in recent years, browse the internet and pick on mediatized cases in India to illustrate their points on crimes against women.
True enough, the biggest democracy in the world does not get hysterical over the dark side of its ‘image’ projected by feminists and journalists in small countries, and is far too tolerant and mature to utter threats to all and sundry.
Women in Politics.
Pic -B. Pac As things stand, several young women lost their lives in horrendous circumstances in crimes committed by husbands and male partners during the last year in Mauritius.
Plenty of subject matter to ponder on and assess the causes, an in-depth time-consuming analysis which sociologists and specialists in the behavioural pattern of male-female relationships are certainly working upon.
We should not focus on half-full glasses, should we? Women are doing remarkably well in several areas ranging from aeronautics and medicine to the highest spheres of international finance.
A female scientist from an eastern European country played a pivotal role in the development of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in the US two years ago. Right now, an Indian-origin woman is posted at the top of the IMF and decides which bankrupt failed state can be bailed out or not in south Asia.
Women in politics
Undeniably, there are too few of them in a highly male-dominated sphere of power struggle across the world. The Prime Ministers of New Zealand and South Korea were lauded for the management of the Covid pandemic in 2020.
Rightly so, to some extent, so was the Mauritian government’s handling of Covid, by the way. However, the South Korean PM was accused of being involved in a corruption scam.
In the long run, the kiwi PM resigned because on her own admission she felt that she had no more by way of ideas to tackle the various issues facing the country.
Breast-feeding in Parliament and the hugging and kissing at tragic events may reap positive image in the media, but it requires much more competence and backbone to lead a country.
The point is that the public should be equally demanding as regards the leadership qualities of both women and men in the efficient and responsible governance of a country’s affairs.
The core issue cannot be a matter of gender or woke-inspired choice of minorities and all to please populist politicians of all hues and noisy voices rising from the populace on social media.
Rishi Sunak was not chosen by his peers because of his handsome face or his foreign origin; he was chosen because he was the only one who could handle the steering wheel of the UK at that time and save the seats of the Tories in the process.
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