Angela merkel : a precursor of empowerment

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Course code & name:WGS202, Gender and International Relations

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Sabiha Yeasmin Rosy

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Department of Women & Gender Studies

University of Dhaka

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Name Roll Rokeya Begum 14 Mehedi hasan Shamim 12 Most. Sirazum Monira 24 Thasina Takia 16 Tahsin Sadia 34

content Introduction Personal life

Powerful position Political life

Angela merkel and German foreign policy Issues of gender equality

Positive paragon Why policy failed Merkel and India

Israel visit Liquidity crisis

Failure of multiculturalism Honors and award

Honorary degreeBoring actComparisonCriticismReason of choosing this topicConclusionReferences

INTRODUCTIONAngela Merkel is a German politician best known as the first female chancellor of Germany and one of the architects of the European Union.

NAME: Angela Merkel

OCCUPATION: Political Leader

BIRTH DATE: July 17, 1954 (Age: 59)

EDUCATION: University of Leipzig

PLACE OF BIRTH: Hamburg, Germany

Originally: Angela Dorothea Kasner

Full Name: Angela Dorothea Merkel

ZODIAC SIGN: Cancer

Political party: Christian Democratic Union (CDU)

Quotes: "Spying among friends is never acceptable."

PERSONAL LIFE

Earned a doctorate as a physical chemist.

The oldest of Horst and Herlind Kasner’s three children.

In 1977, married physics student Ulrich Merkel and took his surname.

The marriage ended in divorce in 1982.

Second and current husband is quantum chemist and professor Joachim Sauer.

First met in 1981, became a couple later and married privately on 30 December 1998.

Has no children.

Dislike dogs.

A fervent football (soccer) fan.

On 6 January 2014, fractured a bone in her pelvis in a cross-country skiing accident in Switzerland.

POWERFUL POSITION

The most powerful woman in Europe For the past five years.

The first ever female German Chancellor.

The leader of Europe’s biggest economy since 2005.

POLITICAL LIFEMerkel First entered the political world in 1989,

after fall of the Berlin Wall.Merkel stood for election at the 1990 federal

election. After her first election, she was almost immediately

appointed to the Cabinet, serving as Minister for Women and Youth under Chancellor Helmut Kohl

In 1994, she was promoted to becoming Minister for the Environment and Nuclear Safety, which gave

her greater political visibility and a platform from which to build her political career.

Continuing

In that time she joined the Christian democratic union party(CDU)

She was selected as the CDU’s first female chairperson and took hold of the position on April

10th ,2000. On 22 November 2005, Merkel assumed the office

of Chancellor of Germany following a stalemate election that resulted in a grand coalition with the

SPD.

Angela Merkel and German Foreign Policy

Merkel plays a vital role when Ban-ki-moon select as UN secretary general. Because it’s likely to be selected from the ranks of Western politicians (if traditional unwritten rules are followed), Ms. Merkel

is thought to be angling to be Ban Ki-moon’s successor. Germany’s performance in dealing with the Eurozone's debt crisis

has been anything but masterful. Her economic and fiscal policies run contrary to U.S. interests.

Continuing Merkel sided with Russia and China in abstaining

on the United Nations vote to authorize military action against Libya.

She's slashing military spending. And following Japan’s Fukushima disaster she unilaterally decided to abandon nuclear power.

Issue of gender equality

Believes in gender equality , equal opportunity and women’s skills

Working toward flexible, family-friendly working hours and expanded childcare

Emphasizing on company’s commitment toward equal opportunity management

Positive paragon here….. Get TOTAL E-QUALITY award at providing equal

opportunity

Proven women’s leadership skills

Fundamentally contributed to women’s recognition issue

Played a significant role in passive gender equality policy

Women’s employment rate become higher

Her government promises to improve childcare system and parental leave

To ensure equality opposed the quota system

Unfortunately she was not successful

to establish the policy properly

Why policy failed?

Gendered division of labor perpetuated

East Germany was not covered properly

Little advancement make women deploring

Men’s employment rate become low

Pitiful wage for women was not changed

Merkel and india

Strengthened Indo-German relation in productive, and mutually beneficiary sectors

Sharper focus of partnership in the field of energy, science, and technology and defense

Deals for a new fighter aircraft, 126 fighter jets and work with India against terrorism

Awarded Jawaharlal Nehru award, Indira Gandhi prize for peace

Israel Visit

Merkel has visited Israel four timesMerkel spoke before Israel's parliament, the only foreigner who was not a head of state to have done so although this provoked rumbles of opposition from Israeli MPs on the far rightwas also both the President of the European Council and the chair of the G8 At the time.

• has supported Israeli diplomatic initiatives, opposing the Palestinian bid for membership at the UN• Requested settlement building continued beyond

the Green Line should stop• Disagreed with the Israeli government's behavior

Liquidity crisis

• German government stepped in to assist the mortgage company Hypo Real Estate with a bailout which was agreed on October 6, with German banks to contribute €30 billion and the BundesBank €20 billion to a credit line• following the Irish Government's decision to

guarantee all deposits in private savings accounts, a move she strongly criticized

• said there were no plans for the German Government to do the same• Merkel stated that the government would guarantee

private savings account deposits• it emerged that the pledge was simply a political move

that would not be backed by legislation• Other European governments eventually either raised

the limits or promised to guarantee savings in full

Failure of multiculturalism

• In October 2010, Merkel told a meeting of (CDU) party that attempts to build a multicultural society in Germany had "utterly failed“.• This has added to a growing debate within

Germany on the levels of immigration, its effect on Germany and the degree to which Muslim immigrants have integrated into German society.

Honors and awards

• Dame Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (21/03/2006)• Dame Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the

Federal Republic of Germany• Presidential Medal of Freedom (15 February 2011),

awarded by U.S. President Barak Obama.• President's Medal (25/02/2014)

Honorary degree

• In 2007, Merkel was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.• She was also awarded the honorary doctorate from

Leipzig University in June 2008• On 23 May 2013, she was awarded an honorary

doctorate from the Radboud university Nijmegen.

Other awards

• In 2006, Angela Merkel was awarded the Vision for Europe Award for her contribution toward greater European integration.• Merkel topped Forbes magazine's list of "The

World's 100 Most Powerful Women" in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2013• New Statesman named Angela Merkel in "The

World's 50 Most Influential Figures" 2010

• On 31 May 2011, she received the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for the year 2009 from the Indian government. She received the award for International understanding• Forbes Magazine's List of The World's Most

Powerful People ranked Merkel as the world's second most powerful person in 2012; the highest ranking ever achieved by a woman.

Boring act Her strategy to solve euro crisis and national economy is not

fruitful for every country. She make the political culture boring. Her ideas are so brilliant but they can’t pleased the people of all

community and union. She is more rational than emotional.

Comparisons

• Has been compared by many in the English-language press to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

• Some have referred to her as "Iron Lady", "Iron Girl", and even "The Iron Frau“.

• Later in her tenure, Merkel acquired the nickname "Mutti" (a German familiar form of 'mother'), said by Der Spiegel to refer to an idealized mother figure from the 1950s and 1960s.

Criticism Merkel only think about Germany rather than the whole

Europe. Her austerity strategy of solving euro crisis go in vein. She acts according to her own wish. She talks little and don’t provide any information to the

citizens during the crisis.

Reason for choosing the topic

To discover the power exercise of most powerful women of this time.

To understand her impact on global affairs. To know what are the elements that makes her powerful and

famous. To learn what is her main focus point.

Conclusion Angela Merkel is the idol of women’s empowerment. She shows us the way to discover inner strength and proper

use of it. She is trying to prove that women are as powerful as men. Though she have some wrong doings and failures, she is the

source of our inspiration.

References

www.wikipedia.org Tehelka.com-filesYahoo newsForbes magazinewww.theguardian.com