US politics
fromLos Angeles Times
1 week agoCommentary: Bondi and Noem were incompetent. But that's not the only reason they're gone
The purging of women from Trump's administration reflects a broader erosion of women's equality in the U.S.
A year after the most openly misogynist presidential candidate in modern U.S. history defeated, for the second time, an ultracompetent woman and brought a politics of unabashed male dominance to the White House and country writ large, it can feel like something of a quaint throwback to remark on why it's important to have women in positions of power.
No monograph, in either English or Swedish, has been written before about the Swedish queens of that period. ...It's time to revise the outdated view that powerful female leaders were rare and exceptional in the Middle Ages.