Harris could become the 1st female U.S. leader; Asia's had several
Source: Nikkei Asia
NEW YORK -- Vice President Kamala Harris' official nomination on Monday as the Democratic Party presidential nominee will be the second time a woman heads a major-party ticket in the U.S., a country that has never elected a female president.
Should Harris win the election in November, it would mark a historic moment for the major democracy and a powerful symbol of progress just over a century after women won the right to vote in the country.
Her rise from California's attorney general to vice president, and now possibly the president of a global superpower, has renewed public discourse over female leadership -- or lack thereof -- in politics. Breaking the glass ceiling in the Oval Office would also allow the U.S. to join many countries in Asia that have led the way in electing female heads of government.
Since the end of World War II, at least 13 Asian and Pacific countries and regions have had women hold the top leadership position.
Sirimavo Bandaranaike became the first woman elected prime minister not only in Asia, but the entire world, when she first took office in 1960 in Sri Lanka, at the time still called the dominion of Ceylon. Bandaranaike was elected less than a year after the assassination of her husband, then-Prime Minister S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike.
Read here the full article published by Nikkei Asia on 4 August 2024.
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NEW YORK -- Vice President Kamala Harris' official nomination on Monday as the Democratic Party presidential nominee will be the second time a woman heads a major-party ticket in the U.S., a country that has never elected a female president.
Should Harris win the election in November, it would mark a historic moment for the major democracy and a powerful symbol of progress just over a century after women won the right to vote in the country.
Her rise from California's attorney general to vice president, and now possibly the president of a global superpower, has renewed public discourse over female leadership -- or lack thereof -- in politics. Breaking the glass ceiling in the Oval Office would also allow the U.S. to join many countries in Asia that have led the way in electing female heads of government.
Since the end of World War II, at least 13 Asian and Pacific countries and regions have had women hold the top leadership position.
Sirimavo Bandaranaike became the first woman elected prime minister not only in Asia, but the entire world, when she first took office in 1960 in Sri Lanka, at the time still called the dominion of Ceylon. Bandaranaike was elected less than a year after the assassination of her husband, then-Prime Minister S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike.
Read here the full article published by Nikkei Asia on 4 August 2024.
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