Why Don't More Women Run for Congress?

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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On The Gist, Jennifer Lawless details the reasons more women don't run for elected office in the United States. Her research documents a decline in media bias against women running for House seats. Despite that, Congress is still overwhelmingly male. Lawless authored a book with Danny Hayes called Women on the Run: Gender, Media, and Political Campaigns in a Polarized Era. For the Spiel, Bob Dylan didn't need a Nobel Prize to confirm his status as a great writer. Panoply Survey: We want you to tell us about the podcasts you enjoy and how often you listen to them. So we created a survey that takes just a couple of minutes to complete. If you fill it out, you'll help Panoply to make great podcasts about the things you love. And things you didn't even know you loved. To fill out the survey, just go to www.megaphone.fm/survey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:07.7	It's Thursday October 13th 2016 from Slate, it's the gist I might pesca.
0:13.0	Donald Trump said many, many bad things on a bus.
0:16.5	His poll numbers, sank.
0:18.6	His standing, suffered, new allegations have surfaced.
0:22.5	And yet, perhaps some of us, columnists in the New York Times, for instance,
0:28.2	like Nick Christoff have taken the opportunity to go,
0:31.8	eee we bit too far.
0:33.9	I'm just suggesting that as a corrective to Mr. Trump's horrible words
0:39.0	and apparently actions indeed, Nick Christoff writes,
0:41.9	what is dehumanizing?
0:43.5	Is not necessarily dirty words as much as the casual braggadocio by men
0:50.1	that normalizes assault?
0:52.9	One study of 16,000 comments on a website for fraternity men
0:57.9	that website upon investigation is total frat move.
1:01.9	So a total frat move study found that the most common body part mentioned
1:07.4	was ass followed by tits.
1:11.6	When Nick Christoff doesn't disclose that the third most common body part,
1:15.0	the duodenum, that part of the small intestine, the duodenum.
1:18.9	And then Christoff goes on to say, men posting on the site were 25 times as likely
1:24.3	to refer to a woman's ass as her smile.
1:29.2	This analysis of total frat move revealed that shocking conclusion.
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