Opinion: Other nations have been putting women in charge. Where’s the U.S.?
But rather than looking inward, voters would do well to widen the horizon and look abroad. Since the end of World War II, 64 countries have had a female head of state, according to the Council on Foreign Relations’
, which ranks countries on their progress toward gender parity in political participation. These countries — from Bangladesh and Liberia to Germany and New Zealand — vary significantly in terms of the overall status of women in society.Yet even in countries where women face steep political, economic and social barriers, they’ve managed to climb the ladder all the way to the top.
How, then, should we explain the absence of a female president in the United States’ 244-year history — or in other countries that have failed to elect a woman to high office? Many factors are at play, including
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