By Cynthia Barrow-Giles
Cynthia Barrow-Giles is Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados.
“For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.”
Michelle Bachelet, former head of UN Women, president of Chile 2005 and again in 2014.
BDW is the new wagon to hitch ourselves to. Earlier this month Theresa May became the second woman to ascend to the position of Prime Minister of Britain and not surprisingly one of her colleagues described her as an incredibly difficult woman. According to veteran Conservative Member of Parliament and a former Chancellor of the Exchequer of Britain, Ken Clarke, “Theresa is a bloody difficult woman, but you and I worked with Margaret Thatcher.” Equally degrading is the sale of a