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(5,280 posts)and we can look to Mexico for reasons we haven't elected a female president.
From the Los Angeles Times
That Mexico will have a female leader before the United States and the majority of the other countries in the world is no accident.
For years, Mexico has required political parties to ensure that female candidates make up at least 50% of all competitors in federal, state and municipal elections.
It has transformed politics: More than half of the members of Congress and nearly a third of governors are women, and women head the Supreme Court and the ministries of the interior, education, economy, public security and foreign relations.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-06-03/mexico-did-not-elect-a-female-president-by-accident