"The country?s most famous politician may be a woman, but Burma remains firmly in the grip of patriarchy. n June 25, the Burmese parliament voted on six proposed constitutional amendments, five of which it rejected. Most notably, lawmakers vetoed a proposed change that would have allowed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to assume the country?s highest office. The current constitution, drawn up in 2008 under the military junta then in power, bars from the presidency anyone who has shown ?allegiance to a foreign power” (a measure clearly targeting Suu Kyi, who was married to a British citizen and has two British children). The current and former military officers who dominate parliament clearly don?t want to cede any ground to the enormously popular Nobel Peace Prize laureate and her movement. But there may be another reason why they feel threatened by Suu Kyi: her gender."...