2016 saw women come closest to the tipping point of representation

Anne-Marie Slaughter and Jay Newton-Small say that in 2016 women came closest to the tipping point of representation, but it was narrowly missed
2016 saw women come closest to the tipping point of representation
George H W Bush

BEFORE America and the world settle in firmly to the new Donald Trump-based reality, let’s take a little trip down the road not taken.

Suppose we had woken up to a President-elect Hillary Clinton. And let’s say that, instead of former Portuguese prime minister António Guterres, New Zealand’s Helen Clark or Bulgaria’s Kristalina Georgieva had been picked to succeed Ban Ki-moon as United Nations secretary general.

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