Gay Alcorn, The Guardian – November 25, 2016
The US presidential election was marked by “graphic sexism” against Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton and was proof that progress for women was not inevitable, Labor’s deputy leader, Tanya Plibersek, said on Friday.
Rebecca Traister, New York Magazine – November 23, 2016
During the presidential campaign, many Americans, notably those most likely to have voted for Hillary Clinton, were on the receiving end of torrents of vitriol coming from Donald Trump and his supporters: They were caricatured as rapists and criminals, bimbos, dogs, and pigs, and subjected to the humiliation of watching a man repeatedly accused of sexual assault run for president, advised by a cadre of racists adorably referred to as members of the “alt-right,” all while our first black president and first woman nominee were regularly called crooks and threatened with imprisonment and execution.
Jen Wieczner, Fortune – November 14, 2016
When Hillary Clinton gave her concession speech acknowledging that she’d lost to Donald Trump in the presidential election, she broke with tradition in several ways.
Uri Friedman, The Atlantic – November 12, 2016
A survey of female leaders around the world indicates how steep Hillary Clinton’s climb was.
Rebecca Traister, New York Magazine – November 12, 2016
Hillary Clinton aimed at the highest glass ceiling. What broke instead was the coalition she thought would pierce it — and faith that it will happen.
Uri Friedman, The Atlantic – November 12, 2016
There is no one reason—no finite number of reasons—why Hillary Clinton lost the U.S. presidential election. No amount of poring over polls will tell us the precise degree to which bias against women influenced the vote. What we do know is this: The United States still doesn’t have a female leader, as it hasn’t for the last 227 years.
Gail Collins, New York Times – November 11, 2016
It took Hillary Clinton a while to talk about the first-woman-president idea. She didn’t stress it early in her 2008 campaign. But people kept coming up to her with pictures of their grandmothers who got to vote for the first time in 1920. Others begged her to get the job done so they could see a woman in the White House before they died.
Marie O’Reilly, PRI – October 25, 2016
As the election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump nears, the prospects have never been greater that the United States could join the 50 other democracies that have been led by a woman. So it’s timely to ask: What might this mean for American gender equality and foreign policy?
Tamara Keith, NPR – October 23, 2016
Perhaps it was inevitable that with the first female nominee of a major political party on the ballot, the race for president would have undercurrents of sexism. But what wasn’t inevitable is just how out in the open it has been.