About Akshi
In 2019, a woman council member in the Japanese town of Kusatsu accused the mayor of sexually assaulting her. A year later, the woman lost her job; the mayor kept his. He claimed she had “damaged the town’s reputation”, and got residents to vote for her ouster. The result: the town council was left with 11 men and no woman.
Chile held a referendum in October 2020, to not only vote on a new draft constitution, but also to pick who would draft it. History was against them: most (read all) constitutions in the world so far had been written by men, claiming to be for all.