A Political Lesson the World Is Still Learning
Originally published by Mark Sappenfield for The Christian Science Monitor
Pop quiz: How many of the 193 nations worldwide have ever had a woman leader?
Answer: 59, or less than a third.
Among those that have never had a woman leader: France, Spain, Ireland, Russia, China, almost all of Africa (except Liberia, Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi, and Tanzania), and of course, the United States of America.
But one country appears ready to leave the no-woman-leaders list: Mexico. Whitney Eulich’s cover story on this historic shift prompted me to do a little research.