Generations Of Women Are Divided Over Hillary Clinton. Here’s Why.
After Hillary Clinton lost to Bernie Sanders in the New Hampshire primaries, it’s clear that the debate surrounding women and their support of the potentially first U.S. woman to be elected as president is heating up.
CNN’s editor-at-large and digital correspondent, Kelly Wallace, gets to the core of what she’s dubbed a “female generational divide” when it comes to the issue. Wallace spoke and compiled quotes from several influential women, including PowerToFly’s CoFounder Katharine Zaleski, on why Hillary Clinton may resonate with some women and others, not so much.
Here’s a few thoughts, from all sides of the Hillary debate, as detailed in Wallace’s CNN article:
Allie Nault, 18, Named Miss America’s Outstanding Teen
“We see many women lawyers, and we’ve only ever known Hillary Clinton in her powerful roles as first lady, senator and secretary of state … I think women my age are confident that a woman will soon be president and do not view it as the milestone it really is.”
Katharine Zaleski, 34, CoFounder of PowerToFly
“About five years into working, they’ll see the results of not having stronger female leadership in this country: unequal pay, one of the world’s worst parental leave policies and thinning numbers of women at the executive level … If you want to talk about a revolution, then revolt against a system that keeps 50% of its population from properly achieving its dreams.”
Ariana Javidi, University of Connecticut sophomore studying human rights, economics and gender studies.
“When older feminists like Albright and Steinem engage in increasingly baseless and wild explanations about why young women don’t support Hillary, they display the limitations of their brand of feminism…”
Lori Day, 52, author and educational psychologist
“(Younger women) … tend to take things like birth control and legal abortion for granted, simply because these things have always existed in their lifetimes.”
Want to weigh in on the issue? Read more at CNN.com
And if you’d like to see where your favorite presidential candidate stands on important working women’s issues, check out PowerToFly’s scorecard, “How Presidential Candidates Think Women Should Be Treated At Work.”
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