Debbie Walsh Talks to Amy Davidson About the Challenges Facing Women in Politics
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🗓️ 17 January 2017
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Other countries, including the United Kingdom, Pakistan, and Liberia, have elected female leaders. The New Yorker’s Amy Davidson asks, What’s America’s problem? Debbie Walsh, the director of the Center for American Women and Politics, at Rutgers University, talks with Davidson about some of the structural barriers—and some of the bad advice—that discourage women from running for office.
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| 1:11.7 | I'm Dorothy Wickendon On today's Politics and More podcast, the New Yorker's Amy Davidson talks to Debbie Walsh, director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University. They'll discuss the considerable challenges facing women who are seeking office in the United States. |
| 1:31.3 | You know those scenarios in which a butterfly flaps its wings or somehow a breeze blows in a certain direction, some inconsequential act? |
| 1:40.7 | And it changes the course of human history. |
| 1:43.6 | In one of those scenarios, somehow, Hillary Clinton will take the oath of office on Friday, |
| 1:48.9 | just not in this universe. |
| 1:51.0 | We know that although Hillary Clinton won a popular majority by almost 3 million votes, |
| 1:55.7 | she lost in the electoral college, and there are all kinds of reasons for that which we don't have to go into. |
| 2:01.8 | One that we can't deny is that Clinton's gender was an issue. It was an issue. Clearly, some |
| 2:07.5 | people are not willing, whether they admit it or not, to have a woman lead the country. The New Yorker's |
| 2:12.2 | Amy Davidson has spent a lot of time this year thinking about the barriers that women face in politics and who the |
| 2:18.7 | first female chief executive just might be whenever she arrives. Amy spoke with Debbie Walsh, the |
| 2:24.8 | director of the Center for American Women in Politics at Rutgers University, which tries to get |
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