It’s Time to Let Women Take the Helm
We need more women leaders
What do Adolf Hitler, Augusto Pinochet, Qin Shi Huang, Attila the Hun, Wu Zetian, Genghis Khan, Tomas de Torquemada, Benito Mussolini, Khomeini, Osama bin Laden, Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Putin, Timur, Vlad III, Tzar Ivan IV, King Leopold II, Mehmet Talat Paşa, Vladimir Lenin, Francisco Franco, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Khorloogiin Choibalsan, and at least two Egyptian pharaohs all have in common?
Students of history know that these are the worst genocidal, violent, enslaving butchers the world has ever seen.
But they also share another thing in common.
They’re all men.
Okay, before all you white men get all bent out of shape, I’m aware that Albert Einstein was a man. As were Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abraham Lincoln. Countless men have moved society toward the better. Cured diseases. Advocated for peace and justice. Created the light bulb. Gave us peanut butter. Invented the cell phone. You already know the long list.
And, of course, there were a few bad female rulers centuries ago. Queen Isabella ordered a violent siege just before she gave birth in 1482, just a decade before she had Chris Columbus sail the ocean blue to start the genocide of Native Americans.
