Women and politics

The future President of France may be a woman...

It's the first time that one of the 2 main political parties has chosen a woman as its candidate for the presidential elections. Ségolène Royal represents a great hope here against the right-wing candidate Nicolas Sarkozy (he has not be designated yet as the official candidate but nobody doubts about it) and she seems quite open as for ecological matters. Even if she's not really new in politics (she belonged to the "team" of the former President Mitterrand), she can help showing the path for women who have political ambitions...

This morning I read an article about the world classification of countries as for gender equality. Sweden, Norway and Finland are without surprise at the first 3 places of this classification. But the great suprise is that the Philippines are at the 6th rank when France is classified at the 70th rank!!! France is among the 4 less-advanced European countries in this matter (together with Italy, Malta and Greece)! SHAME ON US! So, as you can see, there's a lot of work to do before seeing more women in politics in the country of "liberté, égalité, fraternité"...