Why Male Politicians Cheat on Their Spouses...and Why Female Politicians Don't

In a commentary for the Women's Media Center, Barbara Cohn Schlachet asks the question that I've always wondered - why is it that male politicians are the ones caught cheating? How come we don't see any female politicians in the same boat?

...[W]omen with political power seem not to have been, or be involved in the sexual escapades that plague powerful men. Granted, there aren’t as many: women haven’t yet, in America, reached the same level of power as men, but the number of women representatives and senators are increasing, we’ve had two women as secretary of state, one as national security advisor, a female attorney general, a speaker of the house, and 35 percent of all state governor appointed posts are now women. Are we just better people than the men? Is it really all about testosterone? Or, perhaps, we just keep a secret better. What can we expect of women when more of us attain positions of power? Will we, too, be flooding the airwaves with stories about our sexual liaisons with subordinate men or, for that matter, women?