The ‘G’ factor


Woman power: Gender was missing in the debate as Joe Biden was under pressure to drop out of the presidential race. — The Sacramento Bee/TNS

IN her concession speech to then President-elect Donald Trump in November 2016, Hillary Clinton declared, “We have still not shattered that highest and hardest glass ceiling, but some day someone will – and hopefully sooner than we might think right now.”

There was a lot of talk about gender in politics then. Many of us thought that Clinton lost in part because of hard-core misogyny and a softer unconscious bias that led just enough voters to think of presidents only as guys in suits.

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