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Show A6 The Salt Lake Tribune NATION/WORLD Sunday, May 28, 1995 well, and a woman’s nameis high on thelist, her prospects are promising. How U.S. women compare Consider Turkey's Tansu Ciller (pronounced Chill- Womeninthe United States have highliteracy and life expectancy rates. They're also well-represented in the work force. Yet they've nevernever made it to the White House. Here's how women fare in othercountries that have chosena female leader. Life Name i Position Soren in rate en air), a 49-year-old former economics professor from a wealthy family. Although her father had been a provincial governor,she did not enterpolitics until November 1990. But she had a key benefactor, the former prime minister who wanted to widen his conservative party’s appealby enlisting women. Shewonelection to Parliament and soon after was appointed economics minister. In June 1993, she was elected the country’s first female prime minister. “The fact she madeit to the top is quite remarkable,” says Sabri Sayari, a former academic colleagueof Ciller and now director of the Washington- basedInstitute for Turkish Studies. : He says Turkish women are well-represented in manyprofessions — science,law, public relations > butnotin politics. Today, only 2 percent of Parlias ment’s members are women. " Still, Ciller’s election was no accident, says Nilufer Gole, a sociologist at Bosphorus University in Istanbul. “Women are almost symbols of modernity in Turkey.” The United States may be more egalitarian than Turkey and other countries that have chosen female leaders. But its electoral system can work against women by focusing on campaigns of individuals, not @ See Next Page Prime Maria Liberia-Peters Violeta Barrios de Chamorro Prime Minister I thought I would be cursed with acne for President the rest of mylife. I had tried everything. L wanted nice skin so badly Prime Minister Benazir Bhi lutto Prime Minister that I was willing to do anything — even risk 1960-65, FormerPrimeMinister | 1994-present Chandrika the side effects of drugs. Then I saw your ad President in the paper and I thought “why not take the chance?” Now I love my skin. If your products Gannett Source: Population Reference Bureau, based largely on data from the United Nations Women WhoLead: Where Are Americans? & Continued from A-1 States, anotherpresidentialelection is getting under way and, once again, no womanis running. Why them — andnot us? “We're comparing apples and orangesin terms of systems,” explains Harriett Woods, head of the National Women’s Political Cancus. While a woman seeking the White House must survive a costly, grueling electoral battle, several womenleaders abroad hail from politically prominentfamilies. Or they have taken powerafter a husband or father has been assassinated. Others have made their own way in parliamentary democracies considered easier for women to maneuver. Consider the 16 women now alive who servedat least nine monthsat the helm. One — Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto — took overaf- ter her father wasousted in a military coup andlater hanged. Five othersdid so after their husbands were murdered, including the Philippines’ Corazon Aquino, Nicaragua’s Violeta Chamorro and Bangladesh’s Khaleda Zia. Yet these women are more than dynastic carryovers. They often are tough and well-educated. Aquino survived military coups, and Bhutto, confined to housearrest and exile for years, fought her way back to powerfor a second term. Andin Sri Lanka, a mother-daughter team is at work. The current president, Chandrika Kumaratunga, is the daughter of two prime ministers — her father, long ago assassinated, and her mother, who becamethe world’sfirst female prime minister when she tookhis place in 1960. In other countries, culture plays a part. England, for instance, has queens. ‘Margaret Thatcher may havebeenits first female prime minister, but it had strong female figures before,” says Irene Natividad, head of the National Commission on Working Women. Another boon has beenthe parliamentary democracy, which sometimes gives women a designated share of a party’s candidate slate. If a party does can work for me, they can work for anyone. —Sandra Manning Midvale, Utah Acne doesn't have to ruin yourlife. For help contact: ao AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF SKIN CARE 714 East 7200 South » Midvale, Utah + In Midvale (801) 566-9688 In Provo (801) 370-0606 Digital Video, Digital Audio, Local Television, Information, any room, any TV, Total Control, ° entTextatnment Bisitat_ systems TAKE 50% OFF Bg ON PORTRAITS MONDAY, MAY 2S ONLY No sitting fee is required. Groups slightly more, Not valid with other couponsor specials. Good at specified locations. Good on portrait sitting taken on Monday, May 29 only. 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