With November almost here, another parliamentary year begins and the fourth Throne Speech by the One Bermuda Alliance is upon us. The high point, of course, will be the United States presidential race, which may result in the first female being elected as leader of the free world.

Britain has a female leader; Australia had one, too, as recently as 2013.

It dawned on me that Bermuda, although having had two female premiers and one who actually won an election as party leader, has not since had any females in leadership contention.

The Progressive Labour Party for many years had Dame Lois Browne-Evans, and during her era women seemed very much at the forefront of the party and its movement. That was never the case with the United Bermuda Party, which was more of a male club, but for a short spell after the resignation of Sir John Swan, when Dame Pamela Gordon took over a vulnerable party whose time was truly up.

It was no fault of hers that the party lost; the handwriting was already on the wall with the previous election that was won more by an active party machinery that got people out to the polls, even in wheelchairs, but could only secure a very narrow win. Women are still the majority of the electorate and are probably more diligent in turning out to vote. Yet somehow and for reason, which is curious to uncover, they seem to be less boisterous and are innocuous participants in the present leadership game.

Maybe because we have already had two? Or maybe because the issues of the day, such as gun violence, unemployment or our sagging economy have not loaned themselves to the softer species?

I remember with some sadness the fight that the now deceased former parliamentarian Louise Jackson put up over the plight of seniors. There was no lack of tenacity or, as some may say, testosterone.

If Hillary Clinton does win the Oval Office, and hopefully she does, it will bode well for women all over the world. The economic wave of the future result in women as drivers of many segments of industry. This is already the case in China, where women are in many cases power brokers. There are many emerging economies around the world, Africa perhaps being the largest that cannot and should not develop without the significant input of women in business and industry ownership roles.

Bermuda is an excellent jurisdiction to entertain business and I would hope that a contingent of women will take the opportunity that Clinton may represent in facilitating the emergence of females in major developments.

It will require the vision and imagination of persons to recognise opportunity. It may be our saving grace and another leg on which our economy can stand.

Can I say it like this: it may be the mother role that helps our young men to find a better way and to see a bigger world, rather than fighting over a small neighbourhood wall.