There was, for a long time, an unwritten rule that most women getting into politics had to use a bottom-up approach.
This was not, and is not necessarily true, though some women think it is easier to use this approach, first on party owners and at times on financiers, since elective politics is expensive.
There was a time when a super-rich male colleague tried to hit on me by telling me that I needed to have a socio-political...