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Why strong women scare autocrats

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There’s a reason why “autocrat” is usually a synonym for “strongman”. Zoe Marks is a lecturer in public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, and she joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the newest wave of patriarchal authoritarianism sweeping the globe, and the reversals of women’s rights that have followed. Her Foreign Affairs article “Revenge of the Patriarchs, Why Autocrats Fear Women” was co-authored with Harvard Kennedy School’s Erica Chenoweth.