Arguably, in the whole world presidency is one of the powerful and influential posts, especially in United States. As a matter of fact, if Hillary Clinton had been elected president of United States in the year 2008, she would have had various impacts on women opportunities and rights. Certainly, many would argue that she still has powers to liberate women in United States has been the secretary of state, but that did not happen, had she been the president she would have had more impact on women.
Hillary Clinton would have advocated for nomination and election of female judges into Supreme Court system. Perhaps, the move would have increased the number of women in job market as well as those who would fight for the tights of woman. Additionally, economic empowerment is a pillar to both woman rights and opportunities. Hence, if Hillary Clinton had become the president she would have advocated and implemented on policies that empower women economically. Through political empowerment, women would have powers to struggle for women rights, as well as expound on their opportunities in various fields, especially men-oriented opportunities (Porter, 2009).
Generally, her presidency would open doors for American women to be leaders in various fields, and giving them courage to compete with men in all fields. Hillary Clinton did not win elections, but up to date major mass media in United States has tapped more into feminist and female analysis more than ever, and Hillary Clinton is clearly a motivator and liberator on women opportunities and rights. For example, Muslims women and other minority groups are discriminated; Hillary Clinton would have worked towards eliminating all sorts of discrimination against women. Her campaigns changed how people in United States and the world view gender and politics.
Conversably, women presidents and prime ministers in Third World countries have made a lot of progress towards gender equality. Despite their efforts, there are many barriers in place, which include male chauvinism, cultural issues, as well as stereotype perspectives. In third world, there are wide variations on gender issues. The main challenge is that there is uneven progress on gender equality in many countries (Handelman, 2010). Third world countries with woman leaders have made tremendous progress in empowering gender equality in terms of national development and growth.
Certainly, these women have improved gender issue in terms of education, especially on the girl child. Most of these female presidents and prime ministers believe educating a girl child has many economic as well as social impacts in the nation. Furthermore, there main policies on health care; economic empowerment, and social issue are focused towards gender equality. Women prime ministers and presidents are well known for their peace making and security missions in the Third World countries (Porter, 2009).
The rural poor have various problems; hence, critical reforms should be put in place to improve on their living standard. Most of the people in rural poor depend on agriculture. Hence, the best project to uplift their life should be directed towards agriculture. Water projects will help in improving agricultural production. Pro-poor water reforms will ensure that there is continued water supply, as well as ensuring environmentally sustainable and socially equitable resources to the rural poor, especially women. Improvement of infrastructure is also the best project to improve the lives of rural poor (Handelman, 2010). The infrastructural improvement includes road construction, proper housing, education, trainings, as well as providing financial initiatives.
Urban poor in most cases involve various types of groups. There are few elites who are politically aware of what type of leadership they want. Such individuals include the learned that have no jobs but struggle to make ends meet. During political forums and campaigning, they support leaders and elect them based on manifestos. The other group of political orientation among the rural poor is the stereotype, who becomes politically oriented trough mass media, or ethnic affiliations. In this case, they support politics because one of their own tribe, religion, race, or ethnic group is involved (Webster & Wu, 2010). Additionally, there are those who are poor and they support politics because they believe the leaders will change their living standard. The rural poor become politically oriented in respect to how power is distributed and applied on them.
The urban poor are characterized by low income, low assets, uncertain employment, insecurity, poor sanitation, as well as poor infrastructure. The urban poor have to face a lot of challenges, in which most of it blame on the ruling power. Most of the urban poor population migrated from the rural areas, and they believe their current situations will change. In the real sense, these do not take place most developing countries the gap between the rich and the poor is too wide. The only people who survive the challenges are the skilled as they have a higher chance of securing a better job (Webster & Wu, 2010).
The urban poor are in need of better conditions of living and work, including being involved in the informal sector, as well as better infrastructural facilities within the slums. But the only prospective who can provide this are politicians, government as well as humanitarian groups. Additionally, the urban poor are certain that when they secure a job in the formal sector, their life will change, or improve for the best. The urban poor blame the government for their poor living standards, but also optimistic that the government will help them from the situation.
References
Handelman, H. (2010). The Challenges of Third World Development. London: Wiley.
Webster, B. & Wu, F. (2010). Urban Poor. New Jersey: Springer.
Porter, A. (2009). Created Equal: Voices on Women Rights. New York: Wadsworth.
