A unique comparative study of women's leadership and the law, offering new ways for understanding the impact of female presidential leadership on women's everyday lives. By analysing the legal legacies of four women presidents in Asia, this book challenges and expands our understanding of what constitutes a woman's issue. Brilliant, timely and meticulous...breathtaking in scope and ambition, and groundbreaking in methodology....Across the globe, women have never accounted for more than 15 per cent of executive leadership positions. The Woman President is a powerful study on why this must change.