Is it just my confirmation bias, অথবা do we disproportionality call female politicians দ্বারা their first names rather than surnames?

So this is a hot take that I'm not sure I even believe myself, but I noticed this around the 2016 US election. I bit my tongue on it then, as most people on this site seem to immediately dismiss anything that could be vaguely construed as pro-Clinton (not that I'm still salty about the 2016 election আরো than three years later... ahem)

People seem less likely to refer to female politicians only using their surnames - they'll use both their first name and surname, অথবা their first name only. Hillary Clinton was most commonly just 'Hillary', Jacinta Arden is commonly named in full rather than just 'Arden', same goes for Julia Gillard and Angela Merkel. Compare this to Trump, Trudeau, Abbott, Macron. Am I delusional? And if not, is this gender bias a problem?
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glelsey said:
I think আপনি may be onto something, actually. I personally noticed a lot of "Hillary vs Trump" back in 2016 and thought it was weird, but didn't immediately connect it to their genders. My initial guess was that people call her Hillary rather than Clinton in order to differentiate between her and Bill Clinton, who was already known দ্বারা his surname. But regardless, there does seem to be a theme going on.

I don't know if there's slightly less of this in the UK (particularly over the last three decades)? I can think of two British prime ministers who stand out as breaking this rule; Thatcher (often called দ্বারা her surname) and Boris (often called দ্বারা his first). We also have a lot of prime ministers who quite commonly seemed to be referred to দ্বারা their full names (one of which is Theresa May, but also most of the men who have served as prime minister in my lifetime such as John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron).
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