Women urged to seek higher office

The United States is one of the few large Western countries that has never had a female president.

The closest the country has come to having a woman in the executive office is Vice-President Kamala Harris. While Harris lost the presidential election on Monday to President-elect Donald Trump, her campaign still advanced women in politics, say advocates, who added that much more is left to be done.

The number of women who have become their party's presidential nominees in the US has been minuscule aside from Harris and Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016.