In the UN there was a campaign to get a woman elected secretary general for the first time in the organization's seven decade history.
There were several highly qualified and competent women.
The member states selected a man instead.
In the US, everyone expected a woman to finally occupy the position of the President of the United States.The female candidate was very qualified and vetted. Politifacts ranked her as the second most honest politician in the US.
Her male rival was a racist, misogynist walking conflict of interest who was ranked as the least honest politician in the US.
And the voters chose him.
In Brazil, President Dilma Roussef was impeached unceremoniously for dubious crimes. She was accused of using a special maneuver to make the budget deficit look smaller.That is it.
As she protested at the time all her male predecessors did the same thing and no one batted an eye.
Her successor is accused of getting millions of dollars but somehow no one cares.
In South Korea, another woman president was impeached. Again for dubious crimes.
It is alleged that Ms Choi approached some companies and used her friendship with Ms Park to persuade them to donate money to some charities.
Show me a male leader who did not do worse.
How about Steve Bannon and The Donald's strange relationship.
Choi might be an unpleasant character but what she did is routine in the US: look at people like Michael Flynn who get paid huge sums for influencing the president.
Notice also that Ms. Park is not accused of anything, just to have a friend who was into influence peddling. But that was enough to get rid of her. Because the subtext was that as a woman she was not strong enough and allowed herself to be manipulated.
There is also the former president of Argentina Cristina Fernandez Kirchner was indicted almost as soon as she left office.
Now Merkel seems vulnerable.
I wonder if it is the Zeitgeist.
Curiouser and curiouser, cried Alice.
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