Well, if you are conditioning on "elected" you have to consider that democracies are a relatively uncommon thing in history. If you further condition on democra

Well, if you are conditioning on "elected" you have to consider that democracies are a relatively uncommon thing in history. If you further condition on democracies that the voting body isn't made up of land owning men it becomes even less surprising. And of course if you remove the "elected" condition the whole phenomenon is quite unsurprising since power was often taken by force and men tend to use force to acquire power more than women.