Two powerful politicians, arranged side by side, smiling for the cameras. It’s naive to imagine that looks don’t matter in politics, or that female politicians’ appearances — their clothing choices, their hairdos, their weight — don’t matter more than their male counterparts’. There they were, arguably the two most powerful politicians in Britain, unabashedly female, unapologetically in charge. For most of the 2016 campaign, it looked as though this would be the moment when Americans would begin adjusting to the reality of a female president. Besides his daughter, there are few women in the top ranks of his White House.

Source: Washington Post April 01, 2017 00:00 UTC