In addition to President Banda of Malawi in Commonwealth Africa, President Monique Ohsan-Bellepeau of Mauritius was also serving as Head of State (Commonwealth Secretariat 2012). She assumed the presidency after he died of heart attack in 2012, becoming the first female president in Malawi’s history. This was relatively short lived (two years, from 2012 to 2014). These range from arguments that women are ‘unsuited’ to decisionmaking and are their own worst enemies to the gender roles that define what women and men do, effectively excluding women from decision-making.