What do Georgia Meloni, Marine Le Pen, and Alice Weidel have in common? 

They are women – and leaders of far-right parties. 

According to Ragnhild Louise Muriaas, professor of political science at the University of Bergen, this is a paradox:

“Many of these parties have had female leaders, but at the same time, they have lower support among female voters, fewer female members, and a lower proportion of female elected representatives, both locally and nationally.”

Muriaas, together with Jana Birke Belschner, a researcher at the University of Bergen’s Department for Comparative Politics, has written the textbook Å studere kjønn og politikk (Studying Gender and Politics).

Read more at: https://www.sciencenorway.no/gender-and-society-politics-society/not-a-coincidence-that-so-many-far-right-parties-have-female-leaders/2506600