Women, From a Politics Standpoint

So I found this article that was written right before the 2008 elections. It talks about Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin being nationally known, yet getting "bruised" from hitting their heads on the "glass ceiling." Both of the two were continuously ridiculed on TV, radio, Internet, etc. It then goes into talking about numbers of women in the Senate and House of Representatives, and how that has somehow decreased since 1992. Then it leads back into Clinton and Palin about how they are legit with experience and knows what's going on, but unfortunately, they are not nationally "likable." Obama, on the other hand, was "likable enough" during the first primary debate just because he was adequate in all he spoke about. For some reason, Americans have a "test" that women have to pass in order for them to be put into politics: competency, experience and likableness.

Finally, the article summarizes with the fact that even though American women are the majority in achieving a bachelor's and/or master's degree, and have a higher education than most developing country women, it points out that maybe the U.S. culture is not that different from those developing cultures.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/11/the_glass_ceiling_holds_strong.html

^Here is the article if you'd like to read more into it.

Why do you think that women in the U.S. are treated almost as bad as women in developing countries with norms of oppressing women?

Posted by: Jon Locke