Michelle Obama
What’s it really take to make the Forbes list of the world’s 100 most powerful women? All work and no play? Tonnes of money to pay for a nanny if you dare to want a hugely successful career and children?
The Forbes list of powerful women has been running for six years but it has a long way to go before it serves as inspiration for young women looking to go to the very top and have a life – especially one that includes having children.
Yes, Gail Kelly - Westpac CEO and mother of four – is ranked at number eight but scroll down the full “top 25” list and you’ll find that more than half of the power women are over 40 years of age and childless. Oprah is there ranked number three, German Chancellor Angela Merkel too ranked at number four, Ellen DeGeneres is number ten, US Supreme Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor is number 19 and the list goes on.
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Before indulging in a teeny-weeny bit of sympathy for celebrities whose private lives are flayed open for the public to feast on, spare a thought for what global leaders and their spouses have to endure.
If it’s not the Italian stallion, Silvio Berlusconi having flings with escorts, or holding frivolous parties, prompting calls he should be put out to pasture (from everyone and everywhere but his actual Italian constituents), or Vladamir Putin rising out the water, James Bond-esque, in budgie smugglers and with a well-toned body that defies his age, making world headlines, then it’s what the partners of these leaders are wearing.
In fact, when it comes to powerful women and/or the female spouses of Presidents and Prime Ministers, the fashion police are criminally biased.
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formersnag says:
Lets remember, that almost all, of the “journalists” doing this, are women. In other words, its women, abusing women, as usual. Not, men, abusing women, as these same, female journalists, would have you believe. And yes dumbing down, or sheeple training is what they are up to. Left wing feminist… Read more »
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watto (gonzo social sports commentator) says:
Given some of the challenges we face this century, speculating about 0.00000.1% of the population and whether either spouses clothes are culturally correct, is a carbon-heavy,self indulgent sport. Especially when it is hard enough to get competent, elected officials to bow to our wishes. Read more »
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