Benair Bhutto Gender Roles

Developing an understanding of how social definitions of gender affects a political career will ultimately lead to two sets of conclusions: one concerning the barriers impeding politically ambitious women, the other concerning the strategies some women use to neutralize these barriers. Gender will have an effect on the leader 's performance in office. Anyone who rises to the top of the political system will have developed a set of strategies and repertoire of behaviors for dealing with both challenges and opportunities. For a successful woman, the strategies she has developed and her style will inevitably be shaped and influenced by her society 's definition and expectation of gender. Benair Bhutto was born on June 21, 1953 in Karachi, Pakistan. She came from a prominent political family. At the age of 16 she left her homeland to study at Harvard 's Radcliffe College. She earned her undergraduate degree and in 1977 was awarded her second degree. She later returned home where her father Zilfikar Ali Bhutto was elected prime minister. He was seized by the militay and was imprisoned shortly after her arrival back. In 1979 he was hung by the military government of General Zia UI Haq. In 1984 Bhutto was detained for three years before she could leave the country. She had been arrested many times. In 1984 she moved to London and founed an underground organization to resist the military dictorship. When she return back to Pakistan in 1985 to attend her brothers funeral she was arrested for participating in anti-government rallies. She had publicly called for the resignation of Zia UI Haq whose government had killed her father. She was elected co-chairwomen of the Parkistan People 's Party(PPP) along with her mother. In 1988 she became Prime Minister. She is one of the youngest chief exexcutived in the world, and the first women to serve as prime minister in an Islamic country. She had accomplished many things in her two terms. She brought electricity to the countryside. She made hunger, housing and healthcare her top priorities, and looked forward to modernizing Pakistan. Yet, in 1966 President Leghan of Pakistan dismissed her from office for alleging mismanagement, and dissolved the National Assembly. She was overthrown by the military and her husband was imprisoned. Once again she was force …show more content…
She graduated from the College of West Africa at Monrovia. She received a degree in economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a Master of Public Administration degree from Harvard University. She served in the United States than served in the government of her native Liberia. She was the assistant minister of Finance in President William Tolbert 's administration. In 1980, Tolbert was overthrown and killed and Ellen went into exile. In 1985, she had returned to Liberia and ran for a Senate and when she spoke out against Doe 's military regime, she was sentenced to 10 years in prisons. In 1997, she returned home for the third time and was an economist, working for the World Bank and Citibank in Africa. In 2005, Johnson took over as leader of the Unity Party. She was also known, became the world 's first elected black female president and Africa 's first elected female head of state. She won the Nobel Peace Prize for the safety of women and for women 's right to full participation in peace-building work. She currently lives in Atlanta,