Substantial Woman of the week - Hillary Clinton

Who She is

Hillary Clinton is the presidential candidate

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of the Democratic Party in the United States in the 2016 Presidential  Election. Also, former First Lady of the U.S, and the State of  Arkansas, Senator, Secretary of State, Lawyer and activist.

Her Life

 She was born on the 26 of October, 1947 to Hugh Ellsworth Rodman and Dorothy Emma Howell in Chicago, Illinois and attended Main East High School, where
she participated in student council and the school newspaper and  graduated amongst the top five percent of her class in 1965.

Also In 1965, Hilary enrolled in Wellesley College where she majored in Political Science.
As a freshman in college, she served as president of the Wellesley Young Republicans and supported the elections of Mayor John Lindsay of New York, and Senator Edward Brooke from Massachusetts, but later on, she  stepped down from her position as her views regarding the American Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam war changed.

In her junior year, she became a supporter of anti war and following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, she organized a two day student strike.
In college, most of her fellow students, often thought that Hillary might become the first female president of the United States.

After college, she enrolled in Yale Law school, where she meet and started dating her classmate Bill Clinton, who she later married on October 11, 1975.
She gave birth to daughter Chelsea in 1980.

She became first lady  of the United States in 1992 till 2000 when Bill was President and led the fight to reform the American health care system.
In 1995, Hilary led the US delegation to the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing China and gave a speech that inspired women around the world.
In  the year 2000, she was elected  a US Senator and in 2008, she ran for President but lost in the primaries to then Senator Barack Obama.
She later became the Secretary of State in the first four years of Obama's administration.

Quotes of Hillary Clinton

1. The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life, is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.

2. What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.

3. I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of their own standards and values and not what other people said or thought about them.

4. Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it's a personal life or a national life.

5. Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.


Life Lessons from Hillary Clinton

1. There is no limit to what a person can achieve if you put your mind to it.

2. It's never too early to start living your dreams.

3. Gender is not a barrier to achieving your goals, all you need do, is to work hard and follow your dreams.

Thanks for reading.

Source:
Wikipedia
Hillary for America

Current female world leaders(Presidents and Prime Ministers)

Presently in world, there are 10 female prime ministers, 10 presidents and 1 Chancellor amongst their male counterparts, in  the 196 countries.
Making a total of 21 female leaders of developed and under developed nations in the world.

Female world leaders have always existed and have shown strength and courage in leading their countries to greater heights. And apart from the great monarchs like the Queens of England, scotland, etc,  who were born into royalty and thrust into leadership positions (although majority now perform only ceremonial duties), quite a number of women have been either appointed or elected by ordinary citizens, as presidents and prime ministers.

Here are six notable Female world leaders we have today:

   Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - President of Liberia
   From Jan 16 2006 - present

     Park Geun-hye - President of South Korea
     From Feb 29 2013 - present

        Angela Merkel - Chancellor of Germany
        From Nov 22 2005- present

Sheikh Hasina Wajed - Prime Minister of Bangladesh
From Jan 6 2009 - present

Portia Simpson Miller- Prime Minister of Jamaica 

From Jan 5 2012 - present 

Catherine Samba-Panda - President of Central African Republic 

From Jan 23 2014 - present 

The other countries with current female presidents and prime ministers are: 

Trinidad and Tobago, Kosovo, Denmark,Slovenia , Cyprus (North), Senagal, Norway, Latvia,Chile, Malta, Lithuania, Poland, Switzerland, Croatia and Brazil(although she isn't functioning now due to ongoing impeachment trial).

Source: rulers.org 

Meet the Military Commander Miss USA 2016

The just concluded Miss USA pageant brought to the limelight a very amazing young woman of 26 years - Deshauna Barber. She won the contest not only with her beauty, but with her brains and love for her country as she is a military commander in the United States Army.

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This is what she thinks about being CONFIDENTLY BEAUTIFUL when asked by the judges  of the pageant :

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"To me confidently beautiful means understanding. Its not always about your appearance. It’s not always about who you are around and how they feel you look, where they feel you come from or your economic background. Serving in the military has taught me that being confidently beautiful is about being able to earn respect from people regardless of what you look like. As a woman in the military, people associate beauty with weakness and they learn very quickly that I’m extremely strong, and though I’m small, I’m powerful. Confidently beautiful is being myself and being very happy with who I’ve become."

What young girls should learn from her, is that being pretty is not enough. Women are worth more than a pretty face and a nice body.  Our mind is what is important, if we truly want to change the world for good.