while i'm thinking about it, beowulf...
you forget that thre doesn't seem like a big number, until you think of it as a percentage. do correct me if i'm wrong, but wasn't meir the first female premier in modern times? of anywhere with any political clout in the world, that is. so that's roughly 3 out of 3 female leaders who were bullying, vicious thugs. hmmmm...
as for male advisers - i dunno so much about the other two, but thatcher did everything HER way, whether she was advised to the contrary or not. she was (and probably still is, for all i know) famous for that.