Word: woman
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...blogopshere, he managed to unite feminists and conservatives in fury at his reduction of Muslim women to nothing more than what they wear on their heads. "Why this emphasis on the hijab," blogged Amal Amireh, a Palestinian feminist, "as if it is the essence of what a Muslim woman...
...mercenaries, and then - with the arrival of a second fragile peace after President Charles Taylor's defeat and exile in 2003 - a wild-eyed group of Western carpetbaggers after a quick buck. It was only when Harvard-educated Ellen Johnson Sirleaf won office as Africa's first elected woman head of state in 2005 and promised wholesale reform that the Mamba Point began to welcome what Bsaibes calls "respectables" - executives from multinationals eyeing Liberia for opportunities and, to Bsaibe's delight, government ministers. "This is the only time we feel that when the government come to use our hotel, they...
When Ellen Johnson Sirleaf became Africa's first elected woman President in 2006, she inherited a country shattered by nearly two decades of civil war. Harvard educated, a former banker and World Bank official, and an opposition leader who was jailed in the 1990s, Johnson Sirleaf had natural allies in the West and at home won widespread support for her promise of egalitarian development. But the test for Liberia's "Iron Lady" was always going to be in the doing. She spoke to Africa bureau chief Alex Perry at Liberia's Foreign Ministry in Monrovia...
Does being a woman president add complications? It does. I represent the aspirations and expectations of the women. I must ensure their expectations are met. I must open the doors for other women. And people want me to go and speak, to tell of my experiences. I find myself so crowded, trying to represent the women of Liberia, the women of Africa, sometimes even the women of the world. I enjoy being out there, telling people women are going to change the world. But at times I wish I was granted some benign neglect...
...This was a whole lot more than a simple affair. This was a love story.' MARK SANFORD, South Carolina governor, on his relationship with an Argentine woman he considers his "soul mate"; Sanford says he is "trying" to fall back in love with his wife, at right...