Op Dinsdag 9 Augustus gedenk ons weer die 20 000 vroue wat op di\u00e9 dag in 1956 na die Uniegebou toe opgeruk het in protes teen die paswette. Terwyl hierdie onverskrokke groep vroue se dapper \u00addade ons bly inspireer, is Vrouedag ook \u2019n gulde geleentheid om eer aan die w\u00eareld se hedendaagse leiers en heldinne te betoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vanjaar is \u2019n besonderse jaar vir vroue in die politiek. Nie net is Angela Merkel steeds aan die stuur van sake in Duitsland nie, maar verlede maand het Theresa May die tweede vroulike eerste minister van Brittanje geword (die eerste een was Margaret Thatcher), en slegs Donald Trump se oranje haredos staan in Hillary Clinton se pad om die eerste vroulike president van Amerika te word. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Elders begin al hoe meer vroue ook die voortou neem in die politiek. In die inleiding tot Forbes se lys van die w\u00eareld se 25 magtigste vroue, skryf Alix McNamara dat die aantal vroulike w\u00eareldleiers \u2013 presidente en ander staatshoofde \u2013 sedert 2005 meer as verdubbel het. Sy noem Taiwan, Mianmar, Nepal, Kroasi\u00eb, Mauritius en Litaue as voorbeelde van lande wat in die afgelope jaar vroulike leiers verkies of herverkies het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
S\u00f3 baie vroulike staatshoofde is deesdae op die toneel, skryf McNamara verder, dat daar vanjaar minder glanspersoonlikhede as gewoonlik op Forbes se lys verskyn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Op eie bodem het ons ook heelwat prominente vroue op die politieke speelveld. Thuli Madonsela word wyd geprys vir haar werk as openbare beskermer en haar durf in die stryd teen korrupsie en ongeregtigheid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Helen Zille, premier van die Wes-Kaap en voormalige leier van die DA, het ook al keer op keer bewys dat vroulike politici nie vir hul manlike eweknie\u00eb hoef terug te staan nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Verder het ons eie dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma in 2012 die eerste vroulike voorsitter van die Afrika-unie geword. Sy word ook geprys vir haar uitstekende werk as voormalige minister van binnelandse sake. Onder haar leierskap het di\u00e9 \u00addepartement in 2011 vir die eerste keer in 16 jaar \u2019n skoon oudit ontvang. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Buiten die politiek, maak vroue ook in die sakew\u00eareld hul merk. Christine Lagarde tree al sedert 2011 op as die besturende direkteur van die gesaghebbende Internasionale Monet\u00eare Fonds (IMF). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
By die reuse van sosiale media is vroue ook tans aan die stuur van sake. Sheryl Sandberg is die hoofbedryfsbeampte van Facebook, terwyl Susan Wojcicki die uitvoerende hoof van YouTube is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vroue beklee selfs topposte by HP, IBM, Apple, PepsiCo en talle ander groot internasionale handelsname. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Suid-Afrika se sakevroue staan ook nie \u2019n aks terug vir hul internasionale eweknie\u00eb nie. Nicki Newton-King is tans die uitvoerende hoof van die Johannesburgse Aandelebeurs \u2013 die eerste vrou tot nog toe om hierdie rol te beklee. Nog groot name is Christine Ramon, hoof finansi\u00eble beampte van Anglogold Ashanti Beperk, en Maria Ramos, hoofbedryfsbeampte van Absa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As dit by welwillendheidswerk kom, staan daar ook heelwat vroue uit. Tesame met haar man, Bill, het Melinda Gates reeds miljoene dollars in die welstand van mense ingeploeg deur die Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dan is daar ook die jong Pakistanse kampvegter Malala Yousafzai wat in 2014 op die ouderdom van 17 die \u00adNobel-prys vir Vrede ontvang het \u2013 die jongste Nobel-pryswenner ooit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die lys formidabele vroue wat w\u00eareldwyd groot invloed het, is lank. Net soos ons voormoeders, wat op 9 Augustus 1956 teen ongeregtigheid opgestaan het, wys di\u00e9 eietydse heldinne vir ons hoe vroue hulself in die samelewing kan laat geld en \u2019n daadwerklike verskil kan maak. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00a6 Bronne: www.forbes.com, www.leader.co.za, www.whoswho.co.za <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Op Dinsdag 9 Augustus gedenk ons weer die 20 000 vroue wat op di\u00e9 dag in 1956 na die Uniegebou toe opgeruk het in protes teen die paswette. 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