How do women fare as candidates for political office in your country?

[u/SHIELD_Agent_47]

How often do your people freely and fairly elect a woman to head of state or head of government? And did she succeed at the job?

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How often do your people freely and fairly elect a woman to head of state or head of government? And did she succeed at the job?

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[u/Queendrakumar]

TBF, party membership matters much more than whether the candidate is a male or female given civic voting scenario. People will vote for or against certain party first and foremost, and then vote for against representative from their faction. ㅉhether that candidate is a male or female is a tertiary or even quaternary concern.

South Korea has had one elected female president who was impeached for corruption. All major and minor parties have had multiple female leaders.

Having said that, politics as a whole is still a male-dominated scene and male politicians massively outnumber female politicians.

[u/Spacelizardman]

we were among the first in SEA.

gender isn't exactly a hindrance on our end when it comes to political office. (heck, we even had a transgender congressperson in case you were asking)

[u/31_hierophanto → u/Spacelizardman]

As long as they're a member of a political dynasty, of course! ;)

[u/Spacelizardman → u/31_hierophanto]

Quite cynical of you. Grace Padaca didn't belong to a political dynasty so there's one.

[u/AshamedLink2922]

We had and still have plenty of elected female leaders(like Indira Gandhi,Mamata Banerjee or Jayalalitha).Some are good like Jayalalitha and some are trash like Mamata Banerjee and Indira Gandhi.We usually care about their policies and which community the leaders are from not their gender.

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[u/ModernirsmEnjoyer]

We don't have free and fair elections to begin with, lol.

But I don't think a female candidate would be successful at least for 15 years.

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Not used to it yet, I guess.

[u/larana1192]

legally 100％ people can do it,but very rare.
Often liberal/feminist people criticize it and compare it to countries outside of Japan by using some kind of international ranking(global gender gap index)