We are having a discussion about general politics and standing for election and voting, and no one has brought in the applicability of Dina Demalchusa Dina? If a country that governs with intended yashrus instead of arbitrariness and cruelty permits, encourages, and expects women to vote and run for public office, and the position is not specifically for a Jewish woman as head of a kehila or a shul, where is the strength of the argument not to allow it?
Here are a few more questions, though, beyond the DMD issue.
If a shul or kehila has acute challenges, and the best possible candidate to lead them through these challenges was a woman with the professional and personal qualifications and experience to save the kehila or shul, would you let it fail or would you find a way for her to lead?
Rabbi Cohen, with all due respect, your understanding of responsibility and authority is not very deep. B’dieved “allowing” women to vote? Anyone voted into office works FOR the electorate, and thus the electorate is in a much higher position of authority. Who controls a thing? He (or she) who has the power to destroy it. The electorate makes or breaks political careers, so the responsibility of voting, which the Rabonim matired for women, is a much higher level of leadership.