Rosalind C. Barnett is a co-author of "The New Soft War on Women: How the Myth of Female Ascendance is Hurting Women, Men — and Our Economy." (Tarcher/Penguin)
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.
“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.”
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