Earlier this year, the first female U.S. secretary of state Madeleine Albright stated that “there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.” She was referring to women who are choosing not to vote for Hillary Clinton are opting to cast their ballot for Bernie Sanders.
Currently, tensions are high among Democratic voters as the party is about to possibly elect the first ever female nominee to run for president in the general election. And although some feminists are having to put their feet in their mouths for spewing out word vomit like Albright did, women most certainly do have many good reasons to feel passionate about electing a candidate with ovaries.
I’m not JUST looking at you, Hillary.
America is 50 percent female, yet Congress still fails to have equivalent representation of that demographic by being only 19 percent female. It’s like trying to find a needle in a haystack.
This year, that could change.
Hundreds of women across the country are competing for national leadership positions, more than we have ever seen before. Aside from merely earning diversity points and boasting the potential to make Congress a little less of a sausage fest, this phenomenon is so incredibly important for the advancement of our culture.
A recent study in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology revealed that when women and girls have successful female role models to look up to, they themselves become more successful and perform better in areas like academics and have overall higher self-esteem. Males, however, perform the same regardless of who they look up to.
Another study showed that “roughly 9 percent (or $49 million) more federal spending is brought home when there is a woman representing the district in Congress than when the same district is represented by a man.”
Look at that. Women bringin’ home the bacon!
But of course, we live in a society that values men and their contributions far more than it does women. They are also treated with more respect.
Take, for example, GOP candidate (though I think that title is above his station) Donald Trump. He has called women “fat pigs” and “dogs” and has insulted his opponents’ wives and reinforced the archaic idea that women are men’s property by saying “I think the only difference between me and the other candidates is that I’m more honest and my women are more beautiful.”
The Donald also recently claimed that the only reason Hillary is polling well with women is because she’s “playing the woman card.”
You know what, dude? My patience for your bullshit is as little as your hands.
And if “playing the woman card” means getting things accomplished more efficiently, then female leaders should throw those cards all over the damn place.
Because as much as men like Trump want to insult women through name-calling and feel they don’t have an equal place in leadership, I would have to quote Tina Fey and say,