'Margaret Thatcher – Emancipated Woman\r'

'Even directly in the family 2009 the top political positions in most countries be even male-dominated. Emancipation has make a business deal of progress during the last decades, b bely muliebrity in the rosiness political positions such as the death chair or the prime minister are still a rare sight. For example when Angela Merkel became the prototypal womanish Chancellor of Germany in 2005 it was regarded as a milepost in German regime; and the USA, the awkward of freedom and sophistication has yet to experience a womanly president. peerless of the exceptions in this context is the UK. Not because of the UK itself but because of Margaret Thatcher.She took transferice as the first female efflorescence Minister of the UK as well as the first female leader of the conservative Party already 30 years ago, when wo manpower in such uplifted political positions were basically non-existent. She was one of the forerunners for the emancipated women in today’s world. She was nicknamed â€Å"the Iron Lady” and the status Thatcherism was invented to describe her distinctive style and content of her politics. So what set her apart from the differents; how was it possible for her to become Britain’s first female Prime Minister, a deed that no other woman so further could duplicate?One reason for her inimitable succeeder was definitely her steadfast character. She had a strong stamp and did not let others dissuade her from doing her thing. A prime example for this is her behavior in October of 1984 when the IRA made an attempt on her life, which became kn witness as the Brighton hotel bombing. In the darkness of October 12, 1984, the IRA detonated large bombs in the gee Hotel in Brighton/UK, where many high-level politicians were staying because of the British cautious Party Conference the next day.The bomb detonated at around 3 o’clock in the morning, when Margaret was in her hotel room, still awake preparing a group di scussion speech that she gave on the same day. The bomb soberly damaged adjacent rooms and killed several of her expletive politicians, but she came away uninjured, spending the rest of the night at a police station for warrantor reasons. The IRA claimed responsibility the next day, part of their narration was: â€Å"Mrs. Thatcher will straight realize that Britain cannot occupy our country and torture our prisoners and shoot our people in their own streets and get away with it.Today we were unlucky, but remember we further birth to be lucky once. You will devour to be lucky always. Give Ireland peace and on that point will be no more war. ” (IRA, 1984). One would assume that she needed a day off to assimilate the shock of the bombing, but Margaret continued to do business as usual, attended the Conference duly at 9:30 (a mere 6 hours after the fervency) and gave her speech which included the following statement â€Å"…the fact that we are gathered here nowà ¢â‚¬Â¦is a sign not only that this attack has failed, but that all attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. (That-cher, 1984) Besides her resolute character, the other key component of her success was her political and economic philosophy. Thatcher was a firm supporter of democracy. She was anti-communism and in estimate of free markets with little government intervention. In January 1976, as the leader of the opposition (before she became Prime Minister), she criticized the Soviet concretion in a speech that included: â€Å"The men in the Soviet Politburo do not have to worry about the ebb and flow of worldly concern opinion. They put guns before butter, while we put adept about. verything before guns. ” (Thatcher, 1984). Other key elements of Thatcher’s philosophy included entrepreneurialism, monetarism, opposition to trade unions and privatization of state-owned industries Margaret Thatcher really was of the precursors of today’s emancipate d women. She is one of the most important British politicians of the last decades and the fact that she is a woman makes this even more impressive. Her incredible success was in the first place due to her unwavering character and the content of her politics and economic policies.The fact that Thatcher’s politics had a long-lasting effect becomes especially clear in a statement of Peter Mandelson, member of fan tan belonging to the British Labour Party: â€Å"we are all Thatcherites now. ” (Mendelson, 2002) ? References Taylor, Peter. (2001). Brits : The War Against the IRA. 265-267. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 0-7475-5806-X. Thatcher, Margaret. (1984). Speech to Conservative Party Conference, 12 October 1984 Mendelson, Peter. (2002). Mandelson: we are all Thatcherites now. retrived on April 7, 2009 from: The Guardian, Website: http://politics. guardian. co. uk/labour/story/0,9061,730718,00. html\r\n'