#women-in-power

#women-in-power

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.

Joanna of England lived a life deeply entangled in the turbulent politics of the Angevin Empire, showcasing her journey from a princess to a powerful figure.

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 ...It's time to revise the outdated view that powerful female leaders were rare and exceptional in the Middle Ages.