Has the Idea of a Woman President Become "Normalized"? [View all]
Are you feeling a bit ho hum about a woman running for President? Like its no longer a big deal?
After all, Kamala Harris is the second woman in our nations history to win a major partys presidential nomination eight years after Hillary Clinton, who was the first. While they are the only two to get this far, multiple women, Democratic and Republican, have campaigned to win the nomination in all recent presidential election cycles.
Definitely its normal, says Ashanti Gholar, president of EMERGE, a national organization working to elect more Democratic women. I think about my niece, and she only knows a time when you had Hillary Clinton in 2016 and you had Elizabeth Warren and other great women running in 2020 and now you have Kamala Harris. For this next generation, all they know is that a woman can run for President of the United States.
I love that for the younger generation that this has become so normal for them that you cant say to a girl, you cant run for president, because theyre seeing it, adds Gholar, who also is the founder of The Brown Girls Guide to Politics.
https://www.postalley.org/2024/10/17/has-the-idea-of-a-woman-president-become-normalized/
It will be if we actually elect Kamala.
Turkey and Pakistan both have had women leaders. High time we did.