Elections
Liz Truss is the third woman to lead the UK. No woman has been elected US president. Why?
Conservatives in the U.K. may be more positively disposed toward a female leader because of the positive experience they had with Margaret Thatcher.
Updated Sept. 8, 2022, 2:38 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON – Liz Truss became the U.K.’s third female prime minister on Tuesday, an historic event that did not go unnoticed in the United States, which has yet to elect a woman as president.
What gives? Why do the Brits keep choosing women as their leaders while the U.S. keeps sticking with men?