The societies have a pre-existing acceptance of prior female leaders as their President (or Prime Minister), and this works very favorably towards other women leaders.
Because it conditions "common folks" to accept talented women leaders.
In the USA, there's the gender bias problem that essentially prohibits some of the most talented women to lead, because the "common folks" have not been well-conditioned to accept women leaders, so even good talent gets rejected purely on the basis of gender.
In essence, this acceptance of women leaders in two-tiered socities suddenly becomes a launch pad for other women to lead in countries whose "common folks" already accept women leadership. That's the beauty of it.
You've got it completely backwards. There are numerous female leadership figures at all levels of society in the US, but no female President's to date. There is a much, much smaller percentage of female leadership figures at all levels of Muslim society, but they have had female Presidents.
Just run the numbers, its way way better to be a woman in the US, unless you want to be the President. And its only an advantage to be a woman in the Muslim society if your dad is the President (maybe you can be next). In the Muslim society if your dad isn't the President, you cannot be the head of the corporation, head of the city council, head of the soccer team, whatever, but all of those other leadership positions are available to you in the US. |
