At the Comey hearings, some of the most revealing questions came from women

Images of female members of parliament winning a historic number of seats in the British elections Thursday stood in stark contrast to the mostly male images coming out of Washington, DC, this week.

To be sure, both places are still far from the gender equality that exists in many Scandinavian countries and some African countries, where women are half or more of MPs.

Read the full piece on PRI .