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discriminations. On the positive side however, it is equally a story of how women took daring and sometimes
even controversial decisions that have gone on to empower and motivate other women for ages. Through our
complacency the world has done quite a bit to diminish this great leader in the eyes of history; but I believe it is
high time that women made some effort to give Catherine her rightful place in history. She deserves her place
among the ranks of notable and successful women leaders of all time. Nevertheless, I believe that the women of
her time should have stood behind her because successful women leaders are not easy to come – since
ascension to national leader is a much more difficult feat for women to achieve.
Present day
Two and a half centuries later, women continue to be victimized by the inequities of social justice and
millennia of cultural and religious condition that fosters a subliminal resistance to the idea of women becoming
heads of nations and kingdoms. But what’s even worse is that won=men’s
attitudes towards one of their own who si trying to make her mark in a world
dominated by men have not changed much. Don’t get me wrong, I believe that
things are a hundred times better than they were during Catherine the great’s
time. However, one cannot help but question how it is that Hillary Clinton would
lose the 2016 presidential election in USA, where there are more registered
female voters than male voters. Granted, women equally have varying interests
and political opinions as men, but where the problem lies is the fact that there
were many women who placed their support behind a professed sexual molester and abuser instead supporting
her. This election therefore will go down in the history books as a time when women had the perfect excuse and
a unique opportunity to re-write history by exercising their “Girl Power” but failed to unite behind one of their own.
While stories of how her opponent treated women as lesser humans abounded in all quarters, her fellow women
seemed not to care so much. Instead she was crucified for being complacent in her husband’s mistakes, infidelity
and for being too ambitious.
A population gender distribution demographic by Keiser Family Foundation indicates that with the
exception of North Dakota where there are more male voters (52% male to 48% female voters) the ratio in all the
other states is either a tie or favours women over men. Political analysts agree that if a bigger majority of all
women supported Hillary, she would undoubtedly have become the next president of the united states. But why
were women so willing to abandon Hilary in favour of Trump? Was it because she was this very mean, overly
ambitious and dishonest woman that the opposition portrayed her to be? Was it because she by her husband
after forgiving him of marital infidelity? Or was it because she was perceived as being untrustworthy as claimed
by the opposition? I guess the jury is still out on those questions – but most reasonable would agree that all of so
called faults and flaws are no worse than those of Donal Trump. A vast majority of women however, begged to
differ - as is evidenced by the case a 61year old lady who went viral on social media when she switched her
support from Hillary to Trump. Many women praised her for making “the right decision”.
Whether or not one agrees with the rationales highlighted above, the fact the remains that women
choosing to withdraw support from their fellow women, in the face overwhelming justification for such support.
Ana Espinosa, a Science of sustainability Student at Columbia University in New York while commenting on an
interactive empowerwomen.org piece titled "Women Don't Support Each Other" - A Stereotype or Reality? Put
quite plainly when she Said, “…this is a sad reality and in a lot of the cases we as women don't stand for each
other. But, I also think this is nothing to do with genders but with the way we are conceiving the "rules of the
game" in the society, we are always taught to be THE best, the richest, the strongest, the skinniest, the prettiest
and so on, we need to stop teaching generations to compare themselves with others but to create together, to
strive to be the best version of THEMSELVES and to aim to build better societies and places to live, because
overall we are all on the same path to achieve happiness.” It is Bad enough that we have to live with the
knowledge that playing field will probably never be even for women, but when we turn our backs each other
when it matters most history will continue to unkind to as a gender. Woman must change their attitudes towards
each other so as to positively influence their historical narrative.