There are fewer expectations of how a woman in politics should look, dress or act in 2024, argues Amanda Litman. And we can see this in Vice President Harris’ candidacy.
, and not just that we’ve lived through eight years of social progress since Clinton’s campaign: The Women’s March, the #MeToo movement, theRather, it’s all of that and this: Americans are seemingly more open to voting for a woman now than they were in 2016 because in the last eight years, they’ve gotten a ton of practice.
The results were almost immediate. In 2018, a record number of 529 women filed to run for seats in the US Senate or House of Representatives, compared to 312 just two years earlier. And after 117 of those women won seats in Congress, many politicos declared it the second “Year of the Woman”—after 1992, when a record-breaking five women won seats in the Senate. Today,In 2016, not a single state legislature was majority women, or even 50/50.
We can see this in Vice President Harris’ candidacy. She is no longer defining what it means to be a woman running for office—she justa woman running for office, even when that office is the Oval Office. Her identity is a part of her story as she makes the case for abortion access, child care and other kitchen table issues, but her identity alone is not the whole story.
On top of that, we didn’t have a ton of time to mentally prepare for the rollercoaster we’re about to be on. I’ve heard from so many people, especially women, who feel a whole mess of emotions: They’re excited and scared and ready to fight; afraid to imagine what it might feel like if we win and what it might feel like if we don’t.
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