Woman in Islamic Shari‘ah
4. The status of woman
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WOMEN IN POSITIONS OF POWER
A film called
Kisses for My President,
made in
Hollywood in 1964, tells the story of a married
American woman who is elected the U.S. President.
She almost immediately becomes pregnant and
finds herself faced with so many problems because
of this that· she decides to leave the presidential
home and go and live in her own home. Finally she
resigns from the office of president. Even the
Modern world still finds it unimaginable that a
woman should be given a high government office.
In a poll taken in 1972, the majority of American
voters said that they would rather have a black man
than a woman as president. The idea of a woman
president was ridiculed. Someone joked: “When the
lady president delivers her child, the hospital
bulletin will have to announce that ‘the President
and baby are doing well.”’
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Opinion polls were conducted on this particular
issue in 1987 in the U.S. Reuter reported from
Washington that according to a poll conducted for a
women’s rights group, nearly one third of
American voters believed men to be better suited
