Campaigning While Female

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Radio Diaries & Radiotopia

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🗓️ 18 October 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

A record-breaking number of women are running for Congress in the midterm elections this November. There are 257, dwarfing all previous years. And in 2020, we’ll likely see a record number of women running for President as well. It's a historic moment for women in politics. But what many people don’t know is that - over the years - there have actually been more than 35 women who have run for President.

Today on the show we have three stories of women who launched bids to be President of the United States: Victoria Woodhull, Margaret Chase Smith, and Shirley Chisholm.

These stories are part of our series, Contenders.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Radio Diaries and this is Nellie Gillis with producers
0:05.2	Elisa Scarsay and Micah Hazel.
0:07.0	Hi.
0:08.0	Hey, this is our producer takeover.
0:10.0	Sorry Joe.
0:11.0	Sorry Joe. Before we start today's show, we wanted to let you know that right now is Radio Topia's annual fundraiser.
0:16.0	And for the occasion, our team wanted to come and tell you a few of the favorite things that we've heard from the network recently.
0:22.0	Micah, you go first.
0:24.0	So I recently listened to the Stoop episode,
0:27.0	Don't Call Me Ante, which is basically breaking down
0:30.0	like the word Ante, I use it all the time,
0:32.0	a lot of people of color use it all the time it's like a very endearing term and
0:37.6	This episode really just kind of broke down the ways in which it's actually pretty problematic.
0:45.0	I think something the show just really does well is it takes these just everyday things
0:49.3	in my life or everyday things in black culture and it kind of like flips them on the head a little
0:53.7	bit while also just feeling like a very casual like conversation between friends.
0:58.8	Awesome. How many people in your life do you call auntie. Oh my God like pretty much anyone who's
1:05.0	nice to me. How about you, Elisa? So I recently loved this episode. It was a
1:11.7	collaboration between two of my favorite
1:13.6	radiotopious shows, Articles of Interest and Wait for it. They did this story
1:17.6	about plus-size clothes that was the perfect combo of personal stories and
1:22.0	really fascinating fashion history that I had never thought about.
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