Why there're no women in China's top leadership
IN America, Hillary Clinton is calling on voters to break the highest and hardest glass ceiling of them all by electing a woman president. In Britain, Theresa May was catapulted into the prime ministership to manage the thankless task of extricating the country from the European Union.
Meanwhile, standing in the wings is another woman, Nicola Sturgeon, who will decide whether to extricate Scotland from the United Kingdom once Brexit is achieved.
Everywhere one looks, it seems, there is a woman in charge. Angela Merkel, of course, has been Germany's chancellor for 12 years.
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