Is America ready for a woman president?
Victoria Woodhull spent election day in 1872 in the Ludlow Street Jail, which derailed her plans to vote for herself for president of the United States — which she was bent on pulling off even though women wouldn’t get the right to vote for another 50 years. Though she had been formally nominated by the Equal Rights Party, a party she was chiefly responsible for creating, there were factors beyond her imprisonment that impeded her success.
“A woman actually did win the popular vote, let’s not forget,” says Gloria Feldt, the co-president of, a non-profit dedicated to achieving gender parity by 2025, addressing the fact that Clinton won the popular vote by 2.87 million votes. And, it seems we may never know the full impact Russia’s interference in our 2016 elections had on the outcome.
In a country in which women make up more than 50% of the population and earn more than half of the college degrees, yet still have not closed the pay gap, nor its promotion gap — if we can call it that — it’s no wonder a woman has not been promoted to the highest office of the land. “Yes, the country is ready to elect a woman but that doesn’t mean the process to get there won’t be challenging,” says Lauren Leader. First, there is bias in the media “that skews every aspect of the coverage from overlooking the women candidates to painting them in more negative terms.”
The fact that Hillary won the popular vote by a large margin proves that a woman is indeed electable, and even more so since the 2016 election. “There is a fervent desire for change and to see more women and diversity in our politics,” says Marianne Schnall, author of"What Will It Take to Make a Woman President? Conversations About Women, Leadership & Power" and founder of, evidenced by the historic wins in the 2018 midterm elections in both the House and Senate.
“A woman who knows how to articulate a clear, simple vision AND stand up to Trump will be a much more formidable candidate than, say, Joe Biden, yet another older white man. Power always goes to the insurgent. Think Obama, Trump, Ocasio-Cortez,” says Gloria Feldt.
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