A guest post by Ryan M. Rivera, who requested to share this piece with you.

Gone are the days when women’s role is limited to being a homemaker. Thanks to the brave people who pioneered the waves of feminist movements in the past decades, women have attained great empowerment, and they are now given respect and proper treatment. Gone are the days when women are inferior to men. Now, equal rights are given to both sexes. One is neither dominant nor inferior to the other.

Indeed, the descendants of Eve are no longer mere servants at home and instruments for reproduction and sexual pleasure. They are individuals who can do things the world initially thought only men could do. And surely, women empowerment continues to gather momentum and strength. It is continually evolving and developing. Many new abilities and capacities are starting to emerge from the camps of women. Stories have been heard about how women changed the world through their distinct prowess and incredible instincts.

Since women have been given the right to suffrage and thus the chance to take part in the 1920 elections, they are consistently participated not only in this political activity but in the whole face of politics itself. Women empowerment has gone so far that it opened the door for them to make their mark in the world of politics, and a good mark at that. In fact, many women leaders in the world have implemented progress and developments that have positively changed their communities.

Strutting their firmness and strong-will, many women in different parts of the world have served as the highest leader in their lands. Serving as the first female Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher became one of the most influential leaders in the United Kingdom. She served as the Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990, the longest term in UK history. She is called the Iron Lady of British Politics, greatly because she has withstood tough challenges during her turf, including the war of Falkland Islands. It was also during her term when major laws were implemented, including what is considered to be a radically conservative implementation of poll tax.

But the efficiency of women as national leaders did not only materialize in the west, but also in the east. In Myanmar, for example, Aung San Suu Kyi became to be what is considered as the most groundbreaking leader. She leads the opposition party called National League for Democracy which aims to free Myanmar from the oppressive rule of the Military Junta Government to a more peace-loving democratic form of government. Currently, Suu Kyi party is dominating the politics of Myanmar, thus hoping to initiate the desired change in the country. In 1989 to 2010, she was detained under charges by the Military government of Myanmar. Considered as one of the most prominent political prisoners in the world history, she received a Nobel Prize in 1991 as recognition to her undying effort to free her country. Now, she continues to work for the betterment of her country despite all the threats, pressures, anxiety and stress she has faced in fighting for her advocacies.

Thatcher and Suu Kyi are just two of the many women leaders in the world who have proven that the female species can work just as well as, or even better than, their male counterparts. In only goes to show that in whatever field or endeavor, equality between men and women should always be upheld.

Ryan Rivera is a natural health activist that supports the goals of acupuncture as an alternative therapy to today’s side effect rich anxiety medications. He writes about anxiety and related mental health issues and treatments at www.calmclinic.com.”

RAA: Suu Kyi was first elected in 1990 to Parliament, and awarded the Nobel Prize in 1991. Partly as a result of the protests that will have their 5 year anniversary celebrated next month, she just picked up her Parliamentary seat and the Nobel Prize she was awarded (2012).

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