A male emphasis on a woman's perceived beauty --as a marker somehow of capability in a woman rising to power??-- may have to do at least in part with already increasing gender diversity in high level positions in the private sector as well as in government. The more closely an accomplished woman approaches real power, the stronger may still be the resistance to her breaking that ceiling.
It can all begin to look from the outside like that old explanation of how to think about infinity: Walk halfway across the room. Stop. Now walk half the remaining distance. Stop. Now walk half the remaining distance. Stop. Now walk half the...
Yeah. Never gonna get there if the rule is you only get to go "half the rest of the trip" at a pop.
In recent decades, women have made progress in pay and parity with men in such professions as medicine and law. But when it comes to running things at the highest levels, it’s generally still a man’s world.
news.harvard.edu
Note: above piece is from 2016. I can't imagine things have got all that much better by any intention of the Trump administration... despite maybe some more lip gloss on existing small business programs, for instance.
But on the bright side: while Trump busy looking in the mirror, and his lackeys polishing his boots, all sorts of mischief he and his minions may not be paying attention to have been happening.
Some of that mischief is the positive spinoff of Democrats finally remembering that how you make progress for ordinary people is in rebuilding a political bench from the ground up. As seen before and at midterm elections of 2018, more women have been running for office, and crashing through glass ceilings in local and state politics. That's bound to have a salutatory effect on women's success in the private sector too as time rolls on. We'll see a different and more egalitarian, more outside-the-jobs-box way of looking at how government defines and supports "free market incentives" in the USA. Daycare, for instance... transportation options....