Analysis: Hickenlooper should have stopped with 'of course'
By Eugene Scott Eugene Scott Reporter covering identity politics for The Fix Email Bio Follow March 21 at 1:01 PM Women are underrepresented in U.S. politics. Although they make up half the country’s population, 20 percent of Congress and a third of the Supreme Court is female. We’ve never had a female president or vice president.
Derek Johnson, executive director of Global Zero, tweeted: “I don’t know, maybe because men aren’t underrepresented in politics and wield disproportionate power in this country? This isn’t hard, @Hickenlooper.” They’re right that Hickenlooper’s question missed the point. The top ticket of the major U.S. parties have included just three women ever, even though, as The Washington Post’s Catherine Rampell previously wrote, women are more likely to vote than men.
Historically that may have been true. But several women are running for the Democratic Party’s nomination, and have received significant attention and coverage. Hillary Clinton was treated as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination in 2008 and 2016, when she ultimately secured it. Hickenlooper’s explanation just doesn’t hold up.
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