Her point is not just to be proud that women purchase more shoes or book more restaurants online than men, but rather to point to the business reality that women are the dominant purchasing population.
Despite its dominant position within South America (it accounts for half its population and income), Brazil has traditionally been wary of throwing its weight around.
Since Shias make up two-thirds of the region's population, a landslide for lists picked by the two dominant and allied Shia parties, Hizbullah and Amal, was certain.
Although manufacturing and services continue to supplant farming as the dominant forms of South-East Asian output, much of the working population still relies on agriculture (see chart).
It is nice to see that RIM continues to do so well with an old product line outside of the US. The largest population of the planet lives in the countries that RIM is most dominant.