Original title: Finnish 34 year old female prime minister swipe the screen: why Europe is rich in 'Iron Lady'?
4hw.com.cn today, the 34 year old Finnish Prime Minister swiped the screen, which made many netizens sigh in succession: it is the series of 'your peers are abandoning you'.
On December 8 local time, Finland's transport minister, Sanna Marin, was elected leader of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). As the party is the largest party in Finland's ruling coalition, the 34 year old Malin will become the youngest prime minister in Finland's history and the youngest prime minister in the world. This is Finland's third female leader after former president Halonen and former Prime Minister yeteng Meji.
As for her female identity, Marlin took it easy: 'I didn't think about age and gender and got everything because I won the trust of the voters. '
"Iron Lady" abounds in European Politics
Marlin's ascendancy has added a new member to the already magnificent female leadership team in Europe. In addition to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has been in office for 14 years, the new president of the European Commission, President Lagarde of the European Central Bank, President chaptova of Slovakia and Prime Minister Frederickson of Denmark are all women, and they took office only this year.
Not to mention former British Prime Minister Theresa May, the well-known Mrs Thatcher, two former Irish presidents, Mary Robinson and Mary mccallis, and former Danish Prime Minister Heller, who won the nickname "gucchhler" because of his love of luxury goods, are female leaders.
It is worth noting that the background of the emergence of these women leaders in Europe is quite different from that in Asia, especially in South Asia. If we only look at the time when the female leaders were born, the South Asian countries are even better. In 1960, Sri Lanka, the South Asian island country, had its first democratically elected female prime minister, celimavo Bandaranaike. Indira Gandhi, India's prime minister, has been famous in the 1960s. Benazir Bhutto became the first female prime minister in the Islamic world at the age of 35 in 1988.
The special feature of most South Asian female politicians lies in the fact that there is a highly respected man behind them, either a father or a husband. Although these women also have certain personal abilities, they only inherit, defend and develop the unfinished business of their father or husband. The important reason why these women stand out is the family political inheritance.
However, the female leaders in Europe so far are more based on their own abilities, and none of them rely on the shadow of male relatives. They compete with men in political arena in the same competition and fair competition, and finally win under the same rules. It should be said that this is what women leaders should look like when they are born.
The same is true of the European business community. The proportion of female members on the board of directors of large enterprises is generally about 30%, higher than that of the United States, and even more than that of Japan.
"Iron Lady" also needs the care of ideas and systems
The emergence of European women in politics and business is the result of feminist movement. Since Mary woolston Kraft wrote "defending women's rights" in 1792, through unremitting struggle and sacrifice, European feminists have strived for women's rights to participate in politics, education, property and divorce, which promoted the general improvement of women's status and removed the obstacles of women's participation in politics and business.
In this process, they paid an unimaginable price: on June 14, 1903, a feminist tried to seize the reins of King George V, and became the first martyr of British feminist movement. There was a time when the British government put feminists in prison. Some feminists went on hunger strike in prison, and doctors and prison guards forced them to eat with pipes. Such efforts and struggles, though solemn and stirring, have made every step of European women's rights solid and reliable.
Secondly, after the World War II, the welfare system was implemented in Europe, with rich maternity and child care benefits, extra long paid maternity leave, and perfect public facilities for maternal and child care, which made women have no worries. European Commission President van der lain can not do without the care of this system to achieve economic and medical achievements, and finally successfully participate in political affairs after giving birth to seven children.
In addition, most European countries have introduced the 'quota for women' act, which provides for the proportion of women in the management of large enterprises and federal government departments in the form of legislation. For example, Germany has stipulated that from 2016, the proportion of minority gender (usually female) among the new members of the supervisory board of 100 large enterprises in Germany must reach 30%. If not, the corresponding posts will remain vacant. Of course, these regulations have the elements of care and apportionment, but they are only one part of the social engineering of promoting women's status, and they do not exist in isolation.
It is this series of concepts and institutional guarantees that led to the emergence of a large number of outstanding female leaders in the European political arena. Therefore, the improvement of women's status is a systematic project, which can't be separated from the guarantee of social system, the drum and cry of ideas, and the courage and struggle of women themselves. This is confirmed by the election of marlin as Prime Minister of Finland.