Torild Skard
In the second half of the 20th century, South Asia was the world’s poorest region, the most illiterate and the most malnourished and sick, and women were the hardest hit. Still, South Asia became the region with the highest frequency of women national leaders: four of the nine countries have or have...
Torild Skard
When Sirimavo Bandaranaike became the world’s first woman prime minister of what was then Ceylon in 1960 it caused worldwide concern. How could a woman cope with such a demanding task? Half a century later, the woman president of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, received the Peace Prize from an impre...