I beg you, my American friends, if you’re voting next November, vote for Hillary Clinton.
It’s not that I despise Donald Trump, who’s soon to lock horns with Hillary. Rather, I believe it’s about time your country caught up with the rest of the world in trying a woman leader.
Why has the United States never elected a female president? All sorts of nations have shown you the way. Argentina, Bangladesh, Denmark, Britain, Germany, India, Norway, the Philippines, Pakistan, South Korea and (very briefly) Canada have had women in charge. Thailand proudly welcomed a woman prime minister in its recent history. Now it’s happened in Myanmar too, unofficially at least, with Aung San Suu Kyi the power behind the screen.
It puzzles me why the US, land of the free and model democracy, has never had a female president in its 240-year history – even though American women won the right to vote in 1920, almost a century ago! Demographics can’t be blamed, since 51 per cent of the US population is female. It’s impossible to believe that no one in that half of the populace is fit to lead the country.
How can there have never been a woman president when there are so many great American women? You have a famous humanitarian in Angelina Jolie, women’s-rights campaigners like Melinda Gates, the world’s best tennis player, Serena Williams, the inspirational TV host Oprah Winfrey, and, in politics, two secretaries of state, Condoleezza Rice and, yes, Hillary Clinton. One American woman, Grace Kelly, even became the Princess of Monaco.
America has plenty of great women in every sphere of human activity. I grew up admiring many of them, long before I had a chance to visit the US. You have female truck drivers, airline pilots, astronauts and judges – so why is it always a man in the Oval Office? Is there something lacking in American women? With so many ladies doing so well in every imaginable career, why can’t one become president?
