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Populism and Women’s Lives
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Populism has swept into power on the back of a largely male desire to return to how things used to be, born of an aggrieved sense of being “left behind.”
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Populism has swept into power on the back of a largely male desire to return to how things used to be, born of an aggrieved sense of being “left behind.”
Electing a woman as vice president would be historic…putting a woman on the ticket could also move the country closer to electing a first female president.
Although much research has debunked the notion of rigid, inborn female and male traits, these stereotypes stubbornly persist and have unfortunate effects.
US women runners are on fire right now. Why are most of them coached by men?
Men are not alone in using phrases to put women down; women are also at fault.
Our rights cannot be subject to the political whims of legislators, judges, or occupants of the White House who do not see women as equal citizens.
Apparently, Barbie can choose to have a career, but she cannot choose to have a career AND children.
“I think I would rather be villainous than pushed off-stage, as though becoming a grandmother subsumes everything else in your life under a fog of irrelevance.”
In the past, women have been muzzled by heavy sanctions against forthright, aggressive, open and honest speech. No more.
So the female is wily and shrewd; she is no demur wallflower.