Patriarchy, Power Distance, and Female Presidency in Liberia

Abstract

At an International Peace Institute speaker’s event in September 2012, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf shared this revealing anecdote about the gradually shifting gender roles in her country: A teacher asked one of her male pupils what he wanted to be when he grew up and he replied, “Vice President.” When the teacher prodded the student further, wondering why he opted for the second highest elected office and not the first, the young boy said emphatically: “You want my friends to laugh at me? President…that’s women’s work!” 1 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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