Lynette Lithgow was born in Trinidad but spent most of her life in the UK. Much of her career was with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), having presented television news programs for the BBC regionally, nationally and internationally. She also worked for Granada Television in Manchester and Tyne-Tees Television in Newcastle. Her overseas postings were with Radio Television Brunei and with CNBC Asia, based in Singapore, where she was Editorial Training Manager/Senior Anchor. Some of the luminaries who faced her nightly questioning include President Kim of South Korea, Singapore Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew, Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, former Indonesian President B. J. Habibie, New Zealand former Prime Minister Jenny Shipley, Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and the deposed Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, in an exclusive interview only hours after he was sacked. She completed a book exploring the impact of culture and history on Asian management styles, published by John Wiley & Sons in February 2000. Lithgow read Jurisprudence at Oxford University. She examined the role of the media in promoting women in Asian political dynasties.
A Question of Relativity: The Role of the News Media in Shaping the View of Women in Asian Political Dynasties
January 1, 2000
A paper by Lynette Lithgow, spring 2000 fellow (deceased), attempts to explain why Asia has consistently produced more women heads of government than any other region in the world, despite a lack of empowerment for the ordinary Asian woman. This paper examines the forces that have helped to propel a number of women onto center-stage
