Headline, February 19 2025/ HONOURS : ''' HARINI AMARASURIYA H.E. PM '''

HONOURS : 

''' HARINI AMARASURIYA 

H.E. PM '''

THE WORLD STUDENTS SOCIETY - The exclusive and eternal ownership of every student of Sri Lanka rises to give :

H.E. Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya a standing ovation and bestow on her lifelong membership of  The World Students Society. And we give Her Excellency the warmest of welcomes.

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COLOMBO - SRI LANKA : WHERE a strongman failed. In Sri Lanka, where women drive an equality push and a democratic revival.

It was a brief remark during a mundane session of Parliament. But to Harini Amarasuriya, Sri Lanka's prime minister, it was the moment she realized that her country, wrecked not long ago by strongman leaders and their populist politics, had arrived at a potentially transformative moment for women.

A male colleague [ and '' not a very feminist '' one, as Dr. Amarasuriya described him ] stood up to say that the island nation could not get more women into the formal work force unless it officially recognized the '' care economy '' - work caring for others.

To Dr. Amarasuriya, it was '' one of the biggest thrills '' to hear language in government that had long been confined to activists or to largely forgotten gender departments.

'' It was like, ' OK, all those years of fighting with you have paid off, ' '' she said with a laugh during an interview in December at her office in Colombo, the capital.

Two years after Sri Lankans rose up and cast out a political dynasty whose profligacy had brought economic ruin, the country is in the midst of a once-in-a-lifetime reinvention.

Anger has steadied into a quieter resolve for wholesale change. Through a pair of national elections last year, for president and for Parliament, the old elite that had governed for decades was decimated. A leftist movement has risen in its place, promising a more equal society.

As the country's democracy rebounds, opportunities are opening for women.

Women were a driving force behind the protest movement that forced Sri Lanka's president to flee in July 2022.

When the country all but ran out of cash and fuel, the burden fell disproportionately on women, who shoulder the domestic load. Their reage sent them into the streets.

NOW, women are at the center of efforts to give the country lasting protection against the whims of strongmen. Women are also doing the slow and steady work of shaping a political culture that allows them equal space.

Women, who make 50 percent of registered voters, were crucial to the electoral victories late year by the National People's Power, a small leftist outfit.

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, the party's leader, has spent his life in leftist politics. He appointed Dr. Amarasuriya, a sociologist and activist, as prime minister, the country's second-most-powerful post.

She is the first woman to hold such a high post in South Asia who was not the wife or daughter of a pervious top leader.

Growing up, she spent a year as an exchange student in the US. '' I am one of those child less cat ladies,'' she said with a smile, referring to a dismissive comment by now Vice President JD Vance that became a rallying cry for some American women.

Dr. Amarasuriya has long preached that a more equal society cannot be achieved without making governance more friendly to women, injecting what she calls '' feminist sensitivity'' into policymaking.

The new government is taking up policy debates on improving pay parity and making work environments better for women. It hopes to raise the rate of feminist participation in the formal work force to about 50%, up from 33%.

Her Excellency Harini Amarasuriya, the Prime Minister sums up her world with these words : It is '' a change of the way you think about government, the way you think about power and authority. ''

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