Can A Woman Become A US President?

For the first time in 246 years?

- M. R. Dua

Said to be the world’s most powerful and the richest country, the United States of America is probably the freest, and the oldest democracy, a 246-year old soverign independent nation. Being the wealthiest and most fiercely innovative, the Americans are personally the most independent-minded people on this planet. However, despite all these mightily virtuous traits, the U.S. has never had a woman president or even a female vice-president during all these hundred and forty-seven years. This is a bewilderingly huge and unique characteristic of this enormously diverse nation of over 330 million citizens who’ve migrated from nearly 120 countries. In fact, that’s why the late President John F. Kennedy nicknamed America as the ‘nation of immigrants.’

Anyway, do you know, though America’s 2020 presidential election is only thirteen months away, but there seems to be little possibility that the people will elect a woman as the nation’s next president, who will also be the nation’s commander-in-chief ? While there are nearly a dozen Democratic Party canidates vying for (the party’s) nomination to contest the poll, there are also five American women, two of them of Indian origin, and more than half a dozen American men competing to be nominated. They are frenziedly campaigning to win the Democratic Party’s nomination to be nation’s forty-sixth president and capture America’s, nay, the world’s most powerful seat, the White House.

Be that as it may, this is probably the first time in the history of the United States that so many feminine hopefuls have jumped into the poll fray for the country’s highest office. They are: Kamala Devi Harris, from the state of California, Tulsi Gabbard, from the state of Hawaii, (both of India origin), Amy Klobucher, Elizabeth Warren, and Marianne Williamson. Four of these five females are sitting members of the U.S. Senate also.