Close to 40 per cent of those who voted against Democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton were American women. And 53 per cent of white women didn’t vote for her. Leonard Greene has a simpler answer to the glass-ceiling question: You have to “blame white women” who “were angry, too”. But the latest setback to breaching the political glass ceiling is befuddling women around the world. Jennifer Lawless, the director of the Women and Politics Department at American University, once told German newspaper taz that the biggest problem in the US is that “women don’t run for office”.

Source: Indian Express November 12, 2016 18:38 UTC