Denmark has elected its first female prime minister, removing the right-wing government from power after 10 years in power.
Near complete official results indicated on Thursday that Denmark's centre-left, led by Social Democrat Helle Thorning-Schmidt, won the general election and would gain a narrow majority in the 179-seat Parliament."We did it. Make no mistake: We have written history," the 44-year-old opposition leader told jubilant supporters in Copenhagen on Thursday.
"Today there's a change of guards in Denmark."
The opposition won 89 of the mainland seats compared to 86 for the governing coalition, according to preliminary results, with 100 per cent of votes counted.
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In my opinion, in a modern era as nowadays, there is no such a big different between gender: man and woman. Everybody can be what they want to be. For ex. Women can be a pilot or maybe a taxi driver, and furthermore a PM which is in the past, usually just occupied by Men. So i think you guys don't have to be worry especially the girls to be what you want to be, not just in goverment field, but also in legion of another fields.
ReplyDeletewhat's wrong with a women PM? we eat same foods, we learn same things, so why so splashy?
ReplyDeletehere, i have good link http://www.100-women-of-destiny.com/suffragettes/
the web proves that women aren't that bad :)
@ Irina: I think most people would agree with you that there is nothing "wrong" with a woman holding political power. However, every time it happens it is a milestone. Let's hope that someday it happens so often that it's hardly worth commenting on!
ReplyDelete@ Irina: Thanks for the interesting link, by the way!
ReplyDeletewoman who has a part in goverment is such an uncommon thing,so that i really appreciate her cause i think she really did a good job when she showed us that even she's woman,she isn't just be nothing there.
ReplyDeletethe emancipation of women, the topic that has been a hot debate and argument for quite a long period of time. Finally we can see where it is going right? lets just hope for the best, lets hope that they will do their job. there is no more saying 'ladies first', eh? remember the emancipation of women, we are all the same now, girls.
ReplyDeleteI think the bad perception about woman leaders should be cut off since nowadays women can be the leaders of country, company, organization, etc. I've heard that women sometimes are smarter than men (I don't mean to underestimate men). Thus, why do some people still take this issue as a problem? However, another experiment said that men are better in leading than women since men don't have problems in their mind as many as women have. I think the characteristics of the person who is going to lead are more important than the gender.
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