ABSTRACT
Women raise issues that men overlook, initiate and support bills in areas specific to women and children, and seek to end abuses that otherwise often go unrecognized. Getting women into political positions where they can influence security questions has been and continues to be a considerable challenge. The spindle/spear divide between women/men firmly held. At the institutional level, many political bodies like parties and legislatures continue to be unwelcoming to female colleagues, either overtly or passively. Women leaders around the world have adapted different leadership “styles,” according to circumstances and their own dominant personality traits. Social and economic factors also play into women’s ability to access political power. In the era of hyper-partisanship in America, there is increasingly pressure on women politicians to choose between party and support or non-support of issues such as women’s rights and the Trump Administration policy of separating immigrant families, calling the practice “inconsistent with American values.”.
