Young Women, Feminism, and Hillary Clinton

Young Women and Hillary

It is obviously not relavant to young women who have been given every advantage available to them by the women who came before them that one does not have to look hard in the world today to see the blatant mistreatment of women in other countries. Young women in our country take for granted the freedoms they enjoy. The fact that they have semi equality in some jobs only speaks to the fact that the women who came before them blazed these trails.The new generation is lazy and expects more without making any sacrifices for what they now have. In twenty years from now when their beauty fades as paint fades on an old car will they understand that men will use them and push them asisde for a newer better shinier model. As evidenced by many political wifes who have been humiliated by their husbans. Their daughters will suffer for their lack of action for the equality of women. They ignore the plight of older women and totally direspect them by putting civil rights before womens rights.This Presidential cycle was their best first chance to change that in a signficant way. But instead they choose yet another man to lead them. When things for their daughters are worse they will only have themselfs to thank for their lack of concern for womens rights

Hillary Clinton and young women

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Women and Hillary

I have been shocked by the lack of support for Hillary Clinton by women.

I am 52 years old and in my experience Sexism is more rampant today than Racism.

I think that the mothers and grandmothers need to communicate to the young women of today the importance of womens rights and the fact that in todays society women are still paid less than a man for doing the same job.

Women were the last to be given the right to vote. Blacks were given the right to vote in 1865 but women did not get that right until 1920.

Less than 100 years ago.

I am not saying that you should vote for a woman just because she is a woman but when you have a woman who is the most qualified it should be a no brainer.

Women outnumber men and yet our country is still ruled by men and women are still to some degree the second class citizens.

If Women stood together the way our Grandmothers did to earn us the right to vote, there would be no question about who would win the presidential race.

I hope that in the coming weeks we start to see women begin to stand together behind Hillary Clinton.

The best candidate for President.

I think that having a woman in the White House will benifit our country in ways that no man ever has.

I'm not sure what these women posting are talking about. I am a young professional and I still face gender equality issues at work. Women's issues are important to me. The family and children are extremely important to me. My grandmother and great grandmother on both sides worked for a living beside their husbands. And, then so did my mother, except my mother wasn't working as a maid, she was a college educated professional. This article really summed up my feelings about the issue of the woman voters choice.

My mom and many of the women of her generation, right or wrong, divorced their cheating or "no good" husbands to pursue their own independent lives. I am not of that generation, I am a gen-xer, single, waiting for marriage, and not at all interested in standing by a shiftless cheating man. Hillary Clinton is so foreign to me in terms of her life choices. To sum it up, ---I don't get her. And, I guess that explains why I haven't felt a sense of loyalty to vote for her because she is a woman.

I think voting for her just because she is a woman would set back women's liberation.

I desperately wanted Clinton to stand up against the Iraq war. During that time, I waited to see what she would say or do and I was sorely disappointed when she voted for the war. I know she knew it was wrong and I haven't forgotten it and cannot be a supporter of hers if their is a viable second option.

It's not about women's liberation versus Civil rights. And, I don't think Hillary's delima is a consequence of her gender. Just like Obama's run for presidency is not about his race.

Again, this article made some good points that I haven't heard others speak about

Poll these same young women in 20 years after they've worked as hard as the men in their field for less pay, after they've tried to raise families in a corporate culture that penalizes women for being mothers. Poll them again in 20 years after they have been dismissed as worthless by society and the media.

Young women and Hillary Clinton

WHAT ARE THEY THINKING?

I have talked to a number of young intelligent women who say they “don’t like Hillary Clinton.” “Why?” I ask them. I never get a direct answer. Are they really analyzing policies and issues

and the ability to actually make a change? Is this vitally important contest about charisma? To these young Obama supporters, it is. Prince Charming has come to kiss the sleeping beauties and awaken them from their detachment to the political system. Exciting, romantic. But is the prince prepared to run the kingdom?

The mothers and grandmothers of these young women worked and marched and withstood humiliation and taunts and male put-downs and still demanded equality. Are their daughters now so complacent with their status that even considering how they got to be who they are does not concern them?. Are they unaware that they are standing on the shoulders of two generations of women who have slowly pushed up the glass ceiling and whose shoulders are still aching. They may even not notice the ceiling is still there. To quote a 24 year old, “I never felt any discrimination in my job. It really doesn’t affect me. Why should the fact that a woman is running for president make any difference to me?”

And what about the women who are still battling the male culture in their jobs and everyday lives? What do they see when they look at Hillary Clinton? We can read everyday about the indignities that she went through but her history doesn’t seem to speak to them.

But, the fact that a black man is running is compelling. The civil rights struggle still has historical import, but not the woman’s struggle. Don’t get me wrong. I marched and worked for civil rights too. I respect and admire Obama. I am as mesmerized by his calls for hope and change as anyone else. If he is the candidate, I will support him.

But I have been compelled lately to dig deep to try to understand the thinking of these young women. How can they be so cavalier as to dismiss the first truly qualified woman and the best prepared candidate to be President of these United States?

Maybe we were too successful. Maybe we told our girls that they could achieve anything they wanted to and they believed us. Maybe we forgot to tell them the stories of the struggle. Maybe, beyond our wildest dreams, feminism has evolved into a higher humanism. Maybe we really won.

Or maybe, like kids starting smoking because we didn’t think we needed to keep anti-tobacco education in our schools once the battle seemed to be won, we forgot something. Every generation starts fresh. The cultural memory must be implanted. The struggle isn’t over.