canada has run dozens of women for party leaders of the major parties and dozens for prime minister as leaders of smaller parties and not a single one of them has ever come remotely close to winning, and there's not a single case where it was because they were women.

there was a female caretaker pm in canada in 1993 named kim campbell for a few months after the resignation of an extremely unpopular prime minister (brian mulroney) before the end of his mandate, which is not that dissimilar to what just happened in the united states except that biden never actually resigned, and this is what happened:

was that an affront to female progress?

no. she was a member of an unpopular government, she ran a terrible campaign, she made a number of stupid comments and voters threw the bitch out.

there is no use in repeating my analysis of the recent american election. there's a search bar and there's an index tree.