Certainly, many of the women now in power, or running for office, are doing so on the basis of their track records. The last three decades have yielded a cadre of women leaders even where women otherwise lag far behind in terms of opportunity – for example, South Korean President Park Geun-hye, Ukraine’s two-time former prime minister, Yuliya Tymoshenko, and Presidents Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia and Joyce Banda of Malawi.