{"id":534,"date":"2005-09-16T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T18:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=534"},"modified":"2005-09-16T18:59:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-16T18:59:00","slug":"seven-out-of-159-world-leaders-are-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=534","title":{"rendered":"Seven out of 159 world leaders are women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Guardian <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.guardian.co.uk\/guardian\/2005\/09\/16\/pages\/ber20.shtml\">centre-spread picture <\/a>of all of the world leaders at the UN summit (and not all of them are the top leaders) makes a depressing sight.<\/p>\n<p>There are &#8211; count &#8217;em &#8211; seven women out of the 159 total. For the record they are:<br \/>\nGloria Arroyo, President of The Philippines<br \/>\nKhalida Zia, Prime Minister of Bangladesh<br \/>\nChandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, President of Sir Lanka<br \/>\nTarja Halonen, President of Finland<br \/>\nVaira Vike-Freiberga, President of Latvia<br \/>\nTruong My Hoa, Vice-President, Vietnam<br \/>\nFausta Morganti, Captain Regent, San Marino<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s five national leaders &#8211; where are all those &#8220;men&#8217;s rights&#8221; types who claim women are taking over?<\/p>\n<p>(You do have to feel sympathy for the poor protocol officers who had to muster that lot and get them in line, without putting sworn enemies too near each other, and all pointing in the one direction. For those who are sarky about UN diplomats, just imagine that job.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Guardian centre-spread picture of all of the world leaders at the UN summit (and not all of them are the top leaders) makes a depressing sight. There are &#8211; count &#8217;em &#8211; seven women out of the 159 total. For the record they are: Gloria Arroyo, President of The Philippines Khalida Zia, Prime Minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","author-natalie-bennett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}