In a parliamentary system, you can be elected to the parliament from a small borough. But American women have to work their way up a long ladder, and so they have to start earlier. We need more women in the state legislatures. There are currently 24 women in the 120-seat California Legislature. She says that for a woman to be elected president, voters must change the way they think.
People have to feel comfortable voting for the difference.
But while many women are elected to lower levels of government and appointed to cabinet posts, many voters have a hard time imagining a woman as commander in chief. She will have studied the history of war. In the absence of that, I recommend studying football. Football is analogous to war, she says. A woman president will be a football fan.