Women tend to be where they are needed. It is not necessarily in elected posts, but the leadership is visible wherever it is about preserving and sustaining culture. It might not be so visible in formal institutional areas of governance, but in the Inuit women’s workshop, leadership was assumed by my dear friend Annie.
My thinking is that women play an integral part in governing our communities and even our society as a whole. In the case of Inuit women, it is evident that they are the repository of the past linking it to the future. As such, they carry culture. They promote health; they teach language. They pass on traditions by teaching, caregiving and child rearing.
Those are the necessary and most fundamental ingredients required if a society is to survive.
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