Osbourne: Bahamas has long way to go on women in positions of power Darnell Osborne. Although The Bahamas was recently ranked 77 out of 162 countries on the United Nations Development Program’s (UNDP) Gender Inequality Index (GII), this country still “has a long way to go with respect to equity for women”, prominent businesswoman and accountant Darnell Osborne said. Osborne, who is also the former chairperson of Bahamas Power and Light, called Bahamian society “very chauvinistic”, with the slightest differing of opinions from women turning into “lowball personal attacks… of the most sexist and misogynistic type”. “At a former place of employment – although I was highly qualified – a board filled with old men thought it appropriate to cap my salary even though hiring a male with far less experience, hard skills, soft skills and capabilities and feeling justified in paying him more. Sometimes, their justifications seem to be the old fashioned and outdated thought process that you have a husband to take care of you, but the man, considered the breadwinner, deserves higher pay,” Osborne said while participating in a recent American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and Cayman Islands Institute of Professional Accountants (CIIPA) Annual Summit.