The world’s most powerful women are still fighting the oldest battle: Sexism in politics

Across the world, women political leaders — from presidents to parliamentarians — are facing a disturbing resurgence of sexist attacks. Some are harassed online, others groped in public, and many reduced to their bodies, their marriages, their surnames or their supposed 'character. ' It is not happening on the margins of society; it is happening in front of cameras, on parliamentary floors, on global stages. Sexism in politics is not new. But the scale, boldness, and normalization of it in the recent past reveal something far more alarming: patriarchal power structures are not merely resisting women’s rise in politics — they are actively retaliating. When Donald Trump boasted in 2005 that he could “grab ’em by the p—–,” he dismissed it as harmless locker-room talk. 20 years later,