In Americas, women rising to the top jobs

BY Tyler Bridges
LIMA, Peru
Lourdes Flores rode in the open back of a three-wheeled taxi and waved to the people jamming a street market among sacks of corn, carrots and potatoes.

Men greeted the presidential candidate enthusiastically, but women even more so.

''Since I was born, we've had only male presidents,'' said Irma Presentacion, one of the women watching the motorcade. ``We need something better than the men have provided.''

Flores is favored to become the first female president in the history of Peru in elections this April, just months after Michele Bachelet made similar history in neighboring Chile and Jamaica's Portia Simpson Miller won a People's National Party election that will soon make her the island's first female prime minister.
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