I am an Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers–Camden and Director of Research at the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP).
campaign rally in Atlanta, Georgia, on July 30, 2024. On the second night of the Democratic National Convention of 2016, Hillary Clinton appeared via satellite as a collage of all male presidents wasto show her live image. In that moment, she said, “I can’t believe that we just put the biggest crack in that glass ceiling yet,” referring to what shethe “highest, hardest glass ceiling” of the U.S. presidency eight years prior.
Since 2016, women have made record gains in officeholding. When Clinton took the stage in July 2016, women were under 20% of Congress, under 25% of state legislators, and just six of 50 governors nationwide, according to the. But immediately following Clinton’s defeat – and at least in part because of it – women’s political participation surged, from protest at women’s marches toof women won across levels of office, and women were responsible for flipping the U.S.
The U.S. political landscape has not only changed because more women are running for and serving in elective office. It has also been altered by, “I’m not asking people to vote for me simply because I’m a woman. I’m asking people to vote for me on the merits. …I think one of the merits is I am a woman.” Instead of treating gender as a hurdle to overcome, Clinton embraced being a woman as an electoral asset. But that merit was not simply based on a demographic trait.
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