Reward to be a President!

           

              60 years ago, nobody in Colombia had dreamed of watching a woman as a President and the reason is because my country used to have an extreme chauvinist culture. However, that negative condition has changed a lot in a positive way specially for women. I can't say that chauvinist men have been changed at all, but practices for men and women are not the same that used to be in the past. Let’s talk about some examples which explain why the culture was very extreme. Because of chauvinist men, women were not able to vote before 1954. It means that only men were able to vote and of course were able to be elected to perform high positions in public and private sector. In fact, in that time just men had ID. Another situation was that women with low and medium economic position were not accepted to study a career in a University. Only women in very high position could enter in some universities. For women without the opportunity to go to the University the only option available was finish high school. For this reason, most of these women couldn't perform any job in an office. Instead, they were available to do chores like dressmaker, nanny, homemaker, house cleaning, etc. Despite of that discrimination, women got married without any professional or technical preparation. Even if they were not legally adult. Finally, talking about specific jobs, I have a good memory about a story that my Grandma told me. Her husband (my grandpa) worked in making supplies for construction. This kind of job was rustic and manual and demanded a lot of physical job. Because of that, companies had to hire a lot of people including men and women. My grandma remember that she saw many woman working in the same way as men, carrying heavy materials and facing abuse and bad situations. Like these, there are many stories about chauvinist men in Colombia and how women were discriminated for being considered as an object. Fortunately, nowadays times have changed and it is easy to see women performing high positions and governing countries. Although, in Colombia we've never had a woman president many people (including men) are hoping to see a woman as a President. I think it would be a positive experience and an she will perform an excellent job.