by Gabrielle Wallace/Cronkite News, Arizona Mirror November 12, 2024 WASHINGTON – Women have led the governments of nearly a third of the countries on Earth as presidents, prime ministers and chancellors. Vice President Kamala Harris’ defeat kept the 235-year-old glass ceiling in the United States unbroken. “It absolutely will happen,” said Jean Sinzdak, associate director of the Rutgers Center for American Women and Politics. Just not yet. In Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum was sworn in last month as the 66th president and the first woman on that list.