21世纪的帷幕拉开不久,世界就似乎突然进入了“女性时代”。在尼日利亚、智利选举产生了女总统,在法国、韩国、美国等国许多女性政治家也准备竞选国家领导人。而现今,在德国又有了一位女总理执掌着国家。默克尔这位新任德国女总理,在35岁以前,这位生长在前民主德国的牧师女儿还与政治毫无瓜葛,她曾是实验室里一位严谨、刻板的年轻物理学家。她相貌平平,不善言辞又不假修饰,在一群头发花白,仪表堂皇的掌权男人中间,她只是一个爱哭的小姑娘。是什么使她一跃成为大国总理? Shortly after the curtain of the 21st century opened, the world suddenly seemed to have entered the “women’s era.” In Nigeria, Chile has elected women presidents and many women politicians in France, South Korea, the United States and other countries are also preparing to run for state leaders. Nowadays, there is another female prime minister who runs the country in Germany. Mrs. Merkel, the new German woman prime minister, before the age of 35, a pastor daughter of former Democrat Germany, had no connection with politics. She was a rigorous and rigid young physicist in the laboratory. She was plain, rude and false, and she was just a crying little girl among a group of gray-haired, dignified men in power. What made her jump into a great power?