Women hold roughly a fifth of ambassadorial posts worldwide, a figure that has barely moved in years, and one that says as much about where women are posted as about how many make it to the top. Dr. Sara Chehab, senior research fellow at the Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy (AGDA) and lead researcher behind the Women in Diplomacy Index, joins host Maria Luísa Moreira to unpack the barriers still standing in the way of parity at the senior ranks of diplomacy, which countries are making real progress, and why factors like geography may determine how much influence women actually hold.

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In the inaugural episode of this podcast, host Maria Luísa Moreira speaks with foreign policy specialist Marissa Conway about the glass cliff phenomenon, the pattern by which women are handed power at the moment an institution or campaign is most likely to fail, as Kamala Harris entered the 2024 U.S. presidential race. The conversation looks at the structural pressures shaping how Harris's candidacy was read, covered and judged, and at what the glass cliff reveals about who gets trusted with power, and when.

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