The goal of the presidential Gender watch is to lend expert analysis to the dialogue around gender throughout the election seasons. The presidential gender watch 2016 seeks to identify and call out sexism in the 2016 presidential election because it thoughtfully engages in conversations concerning gender topics that have and will continue to appear throughout the 2016 cycle. The list of women who have run for 2016 reveals that gender does not refer to a woman since all candidates played the gender card, and women and men voted. Gender is one of the key influences in the election, and it’s a complex story of what happened in the 2016 elections.
According to the recent polls, Americans are not sure about electing a female president. Women are more supporting the female president in America because, in 2018, 51% of people supported a woman president’s election. The most unsupportive are men, where they supported the female presidency by 38% in 2008. Gender discrimination is a factor that made women be less than men in political offices. Age is a factor where 45% of adults were not ready for the women’s presidential election. Most American people prefer to elect a president of their own race. The challenges faced by women candidates are criticism and attack by social media. The media uses its language badly and emphasizes the female candidate’s appearance. The media got wrong about the features to be demonstrated by a woman o as to win an election.
Reference
Rhodes, J. H., Sharrow, E. A., Greenlee, J. S., & Nteta, T. M. (2020). Just Locker Room Talk? Explicit Sexism and the Impact of the Access Hollywood Tape on Electoral Support for Donald Trump in 2016. Political Communication, 1-27.