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Why women deserve a spot at high table

In the past, women brought up the children, drew water, fetched firewood, tilled the land and stirred the stew in the kitchen. At the turn of the 20th century, that changed significantly.

In fact, women are now taking up new roles; a lot of them occupy C-suites in big corporations, many others are running multi-billion businesses and a lot of them have plunged into the murky world of politics and are, by all means, doing better than men.

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