Simone de Beauvoir argued in her 1949 book “The Second Sex” that “humanity is male and man defines woman not in herself but as relative to him; she is not regarded as an autonomous being.” Seventy-five years later, in 2024, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo was elected by a huge margin to become the first woman and the first Jewish president of Mexico. In her inaugural speech, she famously proclaimed that “for the first time, we women have arrived to drive the destiny of our beautiful nation. And I say we got here, because I didn’t get here by myself — all...