sentences:  Due to the aggressive and competitive nature of politics, many insist that participation in elected office requires masculine traits.Sex stereotyping is far from being a historical narrative.The pressure is on female candidates (and not male ones) to enhance their masculine traits in order to garner support from voters who identify with socially constructed gender roles.Apart from this, studies by American University in 2011 reveal that women are 60% less likely than men to believe that they are not qualified to take politics responsibility.