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Article: Only widows and orphans?(women in politics in Asia)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- May 8, 1999
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Most countries have political families, but in Asia the route to power for women seems to be almost exclusively dynastic. A pity
PERHAPS Wan Azizah Ismail is not yet a household name, even in her own country, Malaysia. But then it was not so long ago that few people, outside Arkansas, had heard of Hillary Rodham, yet now it seems her political career may well continue long after her husband's. What future then for Dr Wan Azizah, the wife of Anwar Ibrahim, formerly Malaysia's deputy prime minister and now its most famous convict? She has just been in the Philippines, talking to Corazon Aquino. Once Mrs Aquino, too, was just the wife of a persecuted opposition ...