Where Women are Risking Their Lives to Run for Public Office

Millions of U.S. households lack access to brick-and-mortar banks and pay a premium for the workaround.

On a recent Tuesday evening at a Pay-O-Matic in Manhattan’s East Village, a long line of customers — men, mostly — waited in virtually uninterrupted silence. Despite the discomforting July heat, they hung in there as long as it took to reach the teller windows. Many had no other choice — not if they needed to cash checks, pay the New York City Housing Authority for their apartments, transfer money to family back home or conduct other timely financial transactions.

A violent backlash against Bolivia’s female politicians is undoing the country’s landmark gains.

When Bertha Quispe was elected mayor of her rural Bolivian community in 2015, she was part of a history-making election. Thanks to a gender parity law, just over half of all city councilors elected were women — the same has been true in the nation’s Congress since elections in late 2014. Along with Rwanda, Bolivia became one of only two democracies in the world where there are more women in Congress than men. But Quispe, 30 years old at the time, learned quickly that shattering a glass ceiling in Bolivia can result in bodily harm.

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