Women and Adversity:
21st Century Women
Sahle-Work Zewde
President of Ethiopia
I’ve never been to Ethiopia, a landlocked country in the eastern part of Africa, which became a democratic republic in 1995. I know its capital is Addis Ababa, but I don’t know much else about it, so I was pleased to read that a woman was elected president for the first time in 2018. Sahle-Work Zewde (Sa ⸍lay-Work Zoo⸍day), was appointed then approved by its Parliament when Mulatu Teshome resigned t ...
Women and Adversity:
21st Century Women
Mette Frederiksen
Prime Minister of Denmark
I don’t know of any American woman who dedicated her life from childhood to a career in politics as M ...
Women and Adversity:
21st Century Women
Dame Sandra Prunella Mason
President of Barbados
I have been to Barbados and remember passing the stark white State House where the president of the ...
