(Politico Magazine – EDITOR’S NOTE) — “Why we still haven’t elected a woman.” By CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN – November/December 2017
Almost a year has passed since the first woman to win a major-party nomination narrowly lost her bid to be the first woman president, and the debate over gender, power and politics feels as raw as ever. It can sometimes seem like time has frozen since then: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are still fighting over the election; women still hold less than 20 percent of the seats in Congress, and only a quarter of the seats in both state legislatures and state-level elected executive positions. And we’re still acting shocked about revelations of sexual harassment in the workplace—a storyline that dominated the final weeks of the 2016 presidential campaign and roared back to life exactly a year later, with lurid details about Hollywood mogul and Democratic megadonor Harvey Weinstein’s abusive treatment of women.
Yet so much has changed since Trump’s surprise victory. Women are more politically engaged than ever, with a record number running for office across the country. And they’re finding strength in their collective voice, horrified as they are by the Bill Cosbys and Harvey Weinsteins they’re exposing. But where is this all going? How are women taking their place at the table in the public and private sectors—and what difference can they make there?
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