Angela Merkel [Chancellor of Germany since 2005], Pratibha Patil [Former India President 2007 – -2012] and of course Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf [won the 2005 presidential election  and was a successful candidate for re-election in 2011], are just a few of the women that have been voted into power in recent years.

But does gender really make a difference in politics? As more women enter politics, will the political system change? Will the world become better? Are women more democratic than men?