The United Nations’ 2020 Gender Social Norms Index indicates that only about half of the world’s men and women feel that both men and women make good political leaders. That’s in part due to Availability Bias - since men have historically been overrepresented in political leadership, most political leaders that people can think of are men, and people begin to associate leadership with masculinity. In other words, we often assume that the way things are is the way things should be.
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