Fifty years into the sexual revolution, why is it that female
politicians don't get embroiled in tawdry scandals nearly as
much as their male peers do?  As more women rise to high office,
like Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) in 'Veep,' we're likely
to find that they behave like powerful men. HBO  Women make up
16% of the current Congress but account for nowhere close to 16%
of its illicit behavior. There have been a few scattered
scandals in recent decades: Helen Chenoweth, an Idaho
congresswoman, admitted to an affair with a married rancher but
had already declared her retirement from office. Sue Myrick,
running for re-election as mayor of Charlotte, N.C., confessed
to a relationship with her husband while he was married to
another woman (and managed to win anyway). State Rep. Katherine
Bryson of Utah was caught with a lover on a surveillance camera
and opted not to seek re-election.  But the whole crew of female
miscreants from the past 30 years barely keeps pace with the
male politicians dominating just