Published on Monday, October 13, 2008
By Pasadena Star Staff Writer
THIS presidential election may have proven one thing, a mother still can't look her daughter in the eye and say, "you too could be president of the United States."
England, as well as India, Pakistan and Israel, have had female prime ministers. So have Portugal, Norway, Argentina, Bangladesh, Turkey, Canada, New Zealand and South Korea. More than 42 countries have seen women as chief of state since Evheniya Bohdanivna Bosch became acting president of the Ukraine in 1918. At least 10 women led countries before the twentieth century.
And many of them, such as Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi and Golda Meir, have taken their places among the world's greatest leaders.
But the United States is a different story. Hillary Clinton may have splintered the glass ceiling with 18 million cracks, perhaps gathering more votes than any female in world history, but it looks almost impossible for a women to break through that ceiling. One source told me that even President George W
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