Old habits died hard and one of those ‘old habits’ was that men thought that rich men should be in charge of the country and women should be in charge of the kitchen and the children. ‘Women should be kept barefoot and pregnant,’ an old man had told her once, adding that he was only joking. Barefoot and pregnant, indeed! Except that he was a liar, he hadn’t been joking, he had meant it and he had voiced an opinion that many men and even some older women held.
On the whole though, the vast, overwhelming majority of women wanted to take part, or at least have their say and their vote, and most local women even wanted Lek to win. It was only the men that she had to worry about and that smiling jackass in there in particular.
Much to her embarrassment, she came out of her reverie to find her
