Since Hon. Mary Karooro's statement that NRM would front a female candidate come 2011 if the men in the party did not stop the bickering, the country is suddenly awash with the common but strange questions of who this woman should be and whether Uganda is ready for a female president. I say common, because the questioning of women in leadership is an old phenomenon, but strange because of the reasons and perceptions underlying the question.
An analysis of Radio One's spectrum talk-show of August 31, 2001 highlights some of what I consider strange reasons given against the desirability of a woman president. I would particularly want to confine myself to two.
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