The Swedish People's Party of Finland elects a male chairman over two more qualified female candidates, not weeks after the Finnish Left Alliance replaced their female chairman with a male one. Clearly, the best qualification for politicians in the first country in Europe to allow women to vote is having a penis.
(Though, Finland has more gender equality than many other countries. We have female president, and briefly also had a female prime minister.)
The really sad part of it all is that the Swedish People's Party was the first Finnish party to field a major female contender for president in '94: Elisabeth Rehn, incidentally also one of the world's first female defense ministers.
Compare that to the presidential election of 2006, when SPP fielded a conservative boring old man with disastrous results (Rehn proceeded to the second round of voting, where she received about 46% of the vote. Lax managed an unimpressive 1.6%; coming in seventh in the first round).
