Punditry has focused lately on Democratic voters’ desire for an electable presidential candidate with the suggestion that the electability criterion biases them against women candidates. …
The reality is that there has not been a test of whether women, writ large, are less electable. In the one circumstance in which a major party nominated a woman, she lost. Further, she lost to someone many women believe is an embodiment of toxic masculinity. That experience may have created doubt but not a reality. CONT.
Diane Feldman