Word: sirleaf
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...THERE SOMETHING EXTRA YOU BRING TO THE JOB AS A WOMAN? Sensitivity to human needs. Maybe that comes from being a mother and interacting with other women, many of whom carry the biggest burden in times of both war and peace. GENDER ASIDE, HOW WILL THE JOHNSON-SIRLEAF PRESIDENCY BE DIFFERENT? AFTER NEARLY 14 YEARS OF CIVIL WAR, UNEMPLOYMENT IS AT 80% AND MANY STILL LIVE IN REFUGEE CAMPS. I'm going to have a rigorous reform agenda in which we will introduce the structural change our country has lacked for so long. The renewal of Liberia means...
...former World Bank economist who once waited tables to put herself through Harvard, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, 67, was officially declared the winner last week of a presidential runoff in her native Liberia. She spoke to Claire Soares about her plans to heal the war-torn country--where the rate of unemployment is 80%--and how she earned the epithet Iron Lady...
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, 67, waited tables to put herself through Harvard, then went on to work as an economist at the World Bank. Now, after a fiercely fought election in her native Liberia, she is set to be sworn in as Africa's first elected female head of state. Johnson-Sirleaf spoke to Claire Soares in Monrovia last week about leadership, healing the country, and childhood dreams. you're the first woman elected to head an african country. What does that mean to you? It means that I have a great responsibility to meet the expectations of Liberian and African...
...Thomas, who knows Johnson-Sirleaf both as a student from her time in Cambridge and from subsequent meetings, characterizes her as eminently qualified...
...Johnson-Sirleaf worked for years at the World Bank and within the United Nations. As Liberia’s finance minister, she narrowly escaped death when 13 cabinet ministers were executed by firing squad in a government purge in 1980. She also earned the moniker “The Iron Lady” for her fearlessness in challenging the warlord Charles Taylor for Liberia’s presidency...