{"id":68649,"date":"2012-07-19T06:52:44","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T10:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=68649"},"modified":"2012-07-19T11:07:18","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T15:07:18","slug":"dennis-joseph-weekly-dominica-would-be-a-better-place-if-more-politicians-were-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/features\/commentary\/dennis-joseph-weekly-dominica-would-be-a-better-place-if-more-politicians-were-women\/","title":{"rendered":"DENNIS JOSEPH WEEKLY: Dominica would be a better place if more politicians were women"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_67106\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67106\" style=\"width: 193px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-67106\" title=\"dennis joseph\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/dennis-joseph.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/dennis-joseph.jpg 193w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/dennis-joseph-99x150.jpg 99w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67106\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dennis Joseph<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I almost expected to hear an outcry &#8220;Captain, there is a traitor on board examine the horns&#8221; in the meeting hall where I had found myself after being invited to this sizable assembly of very committed and vocal people in a State overseas.<\/p>\n<p>There were only three of my species present. You know the species I mean? The one the Bible claims is the head of the home though some women say that in some homes our species is the head of nothing.\u00a0 Yeah you guessed it- the male species.<\/p>\n<p>You see it was a women\u2019s gathering, with women speakers, women audience, women\u2019s ideas and a distinct intolerance to any man like me who dared to accept a member\u2019s invitation to attend even if I sat way back from the stage. Indeed I felt like a &#8216;met veye&#8217; among them whenever the speakers got emotional enough to berate and exaggerate the failure of manhood to the ballistic degree.<\/p>\n<p>The main speaker however was a lady who boasted her doctorate three or was it four times in her twenty minute speech. She opened her talk with a rousing call, \u201cThe world would be a better place if more politicians were female-do you agree?\u201d\u00a0 Shouts and cheers took over the hall.\u00a0 One ample-bodied female usher who looked like a wrestler locked eyes with me and asked, \u201cDo you agree?\u201d to which I hastily replied,\u201cOh yes\u00a0 of course\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here is an excerpt from what the featured speaker said: \u201cUnlike men, women possess special qualities of leadership that help in maintaining fair and corruption free politics. In\u00a0 France it was Joan of Arc, in America Harriet Tubman a slave who became an American icon, in India Indira Gandhi, in the Bible Mary Magdalene, and there is Mother Teresa and others like them who took the lead efforts in governing and bringing unity among the global people for rational development, keeping our paradise earth still green. Hence, women\u2019s involvement in politics should be welcomed universally because the world will be a better place if more politicians are female.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Historically, in Dominica most women were not interested in political office, they only cared for having a comfortable life, meeting a nice man and getting settled down with a family just like their mom did. They were busy washing, polishing and cleaning homes and struggling to make ends meet. But today women are just not like that anymore.\u00a0 They are leaders in nearly every aspect of our life except one.<\/p>\n<p>Despite that we have had 13 General elections and 9 leaders since adult suffrage, there has been only one female head of our government Eugenia Charles, who, Vic Riviere on a political platform, labelled \u2018Mamo\u2019 as an attempt to ridicule the freedomites calling her &#8220;Viva Mama&#8221; as he argued that she had no children.\u00a0 The name stuck. Indeed she was the first Caribbean female Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>The House of Assembly is dominated by male representatives though the female Speaker of the House does her best to balance that equation, by tossing some men out on occasion.\u00a0 There are only two women elected to the House and one of them only made it in a safe party seat and the Senate is even worse.\u00a0 The women who brave it out in politics seem more inclined to \u2018just fit in\u2019 than lead.\u00a0 Some say it is because of the scandalous political platforms, naked lies and just the way politicians go at each other and the women cannot take that.\u00a0 Oh Yah? Women have been taking unfair \u201cblows\u201d since Eve was formed from Adam\u2019s rib.<\/p>\n<p>Did &#8216;Mamo&#8217; make a difference in the lives of we the Kubulians in any meaningful way or is it just the reputation she developed for inflexibility and wielding the staff of correction that we most remember?\u00a0 Was that stiffness as a result of trying too hard to prove she was as good as a man?\u00a0 She presented the same kind of budget with the same unfulfilled promises just like the men do.\u00a0 It is felt that a woman is softer, more approachable, that they are more concerned for the environment and all of those lovely things but to my mind, all politicians behave the same after they get voted in.<\/p>\n<p>However, there does not seem to be another woman political leader anywhere close on the political scene at this time or even in the near future.\u00a0 It may be that the women in the Diaspora who are hiding in plain sight and have gained tons of education and experience would have to come back to balance the equation.\u00a0 <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The views and opinions expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of dominicanewsonline.com or its advertisers.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I almost expected to hear an outcry &#8220;Captain, there is a traitor on board examine the horns&#8221; in the meeting hall where I had found myself after being invited to this sizable assembly of very committed and vocal people in&#8230;","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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