Charges of harassment are cascading through statehouses across the country, leading to investigations, resignations of powerful men and anguish over hostile workplaces for women that for years went unacknowledged. Amid this reckoning, one group of victims has stood apart: political lobbyists.

The social media data analytics company Lissted carried out a detailed analysis to try to find out why British female political journalists are less influential on Twitter than men. It has discovered that there were 4.9 times as many likes and retweets for male political journalists than female ones across Twitter as a whole during the election campaign, and 4.3 times as many retweets from “influencers”: people and organisations who are widely followed in the Twittersphere.

Women have headed up the governments of a range of countries across the globe, from Sri Lanka and Pakistan to Britain and Norway. Some have earned their reputation as "strong and determined" leaders like "Iron Lady" Margaret Thatcher, while others have become synonymous with women's rights like Liberia's Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

2017 is shaping up to be the year of the Black woman mayor. This fall, eight Black women will be on the ballot in primaries or have already advanced to general elections.

“Times have changed … today men and women are equal,” Mao Zedong pronounced more than half a century ago. “Whatever men comrades can accomplish, women comrades can too.” Unless, of course, you mean running the country. For not once since Mao’s communists took power in 1949 has a woman been appointed to China’s top political body, the politburo standing committee, let alone become the country’s top leader.