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

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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.