Where are the women at AAS?

Where are the women at AAS?

Women make up about 50 percent of the population in Asia and
Africa, but only two women leaders are attending the Asian-
African Summit (AAS) that opened on Friday in Jakarta.

The two leaders are Philippine President Gloria Macapagal
Arroyo and Mozambique Prime Minister Luisa Dias Diogo.

The total population of Africa is about 850 million and Asia
3.5 billion people. That means there are more than two billion
women on the two continents combined.

But even the presence of Arroyo and Diogo seems like great
progress compared to the 1955 Asia-Africa Conference, at which
there were no women leaders. -- JP