We have done much to pave the way and open up access for women in politics and governance, but what’s left to be done to help women be more effectively use those spaces for sustainable development?
Dr Kris Rampersad, Gender & Culture Sensitive Sustainable Development Educator Facilitator
Gender Bender. Barbados Mia Mottley Through the Political Glass Ceiling.
Congratulations to Mia Mottley, another Caribbean woman to break Through the Political Glass Ceiling!
Let’s change the conversation on gender, leadership and development.
What does her clean sweep of the polls, leaving no opposition in Parliament, mean for governance in a traditional two party political system? What lessons can she learn from her sisters in Caribbean Politics, Kamla Persad-Bissessar and Portia Simpson?
Would her policy and decision making agenda make a difference to the entrenched culture of politics, culture of business, culture of corruption, culture of crime and criminality, culture of discrimination, marginalisation, opportunism, nepotism and entitlement? How can she bring change?
We have done much to pave the way and open up access for women in politics and governance, but what’s left to be done to help them more effectively use those spaces for sustainable development?
How can they use the lessons of the past and the lessons of their predecessors?
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Through the Political Glass Ceiling captures the build-up to the election of Kamla Persad-Bissessar as the first woman Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago with historical and socio-cultural analyses and contexts that examine the role of gender, culture and geography in the politics of this developing country.
This book presents the paradox of politics and society in Trinidad and Tobago in the context of the contest for leadership between the country’s longest standing political entity, the People’s National Movement, and the first female leader of a political party, United National Congress’ Kamla Persad-Bissessar.
An incisive introduction by Kris Rampersad and overview inscriptions by Dr Kris Rampersad on the culture of diversity in Caribbean politics, it sets selected speeches of Persad-Bissessar against the backdrop of multiculturalism, gender, and geo-politics with refreshing insights into the interplay between minority and dominant political ideologies as post-Independent T&T struggles for articulation and definition of a truly encompassing national identity.
Ranging through the country’s experiences with political parties under Dr Eric Williams, through the period of the National Alliance for Reconstruction and ANR Robinson to the period of voting deadlock at the turn of the century involving Basdeo Panday and Patrick Manning, it presents the situations and contexts of Persad-Bissessar’s controversial political career.
In doing so, it provides roadmaps of Persad-Bissessar’s journey to T&T’s highest political offices, through to the defining moments of the May 2010 snap election.
It is compiled with introduction and contexts by Dr Kris Rampersad, a sustainable development facilitator in culture and gender sensitive leadership, heritage educator, journalist, researcher, writer and publisher who has been has exploring the diversity of Caribbean society and cultures for more than three decades…
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