Elizabeth Warren ended her presidential race on Thursday. Subsequently, his supporters lamented that in a Democratic primary that had a record number of qualified candidates, the competition would again boil down to two white men.
On the same day, a new analysis of the United Nations Development Program found 90% of people are biased against women, and about half of the world believes that men are better political leaders.
“If you say,” Yes, there was sexism in this race, “everyone says” Whiner, “Warren told reporters after he gave up.” And if you say, “No, there was no sexism,” about a billion women think, ‘What planet do you live on?’ “
Men and women vote at similar rates, but there are only 10 out of 193 possible female heads of government, according to the UN analysis.
In 2016, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made history when the Democratic Party nominated her for the presidency, the first woman to be the standard bearer for a large party. Although Trump won the electoral college – and the elections – by 74 electoral votes, Clinton won the popular vote by 2.8 million.
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On Thursday evening, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow interviewed Warren and told the Massachusetts senator that his dropping out seemed to be the “death knell” for the chances of having a female president in “our” lives.
Warren replied, “Oh my God. Please no. It can’t be true,” adding that she has faith.
“We will know that we can have a woman in the White House when we finally elect a woman in the White House!” She exclaimed, noting that critics in the past had rejected an elected Catholic until former President John F. Kennedy and claimed that the United States would not elect a black man before the former President Barack Obama.
The UN report also found:
- 40% think men make better business leaders
- 28% think it’s justified for a man to beat his wife
- Less than 6% of CEOs of S&P 500 companies are women
- Women work more hours than men, but more likely to be unpaid care
“The work that has been so successful in eliminating health and education gaps must now evolve to tackle something much more difficult: a deeply ingrained bias – for both men and women – against true equality, “said Achim Steiner, administrator of the United Nations Development Program.
