hierarchy of gender is an issue that the entire world has faced for many years. In the United States, there is a large problem with women being represented in politics. This can be traced back to how children are placed into different hierarchies of males being masculine and females being feminine through their clothes, toys, and more. However, the issue is also caused by the media’s portray of female politicians in comparison to male politicians. The media’s reporting of the 2016 presidential candidates
Team #2 Collaborative Session#1 Task A: Tuesday, November 8, 2016 will be the 58 quadrennial US presidential election. Over the last 58 elections, never has there been a more controversial topic to speaks about. From the issues that are being debated about, to the Presidential candidates themselves. This year 's’ Presidential race has been closely monitored by people from all different demographics. The issues debated will not only have an impact on the United States, but they will have an even bigger
femininity and competence. This is the bind where women have to balance a fine line between feminine and masculine without tipping the scale. If a candidate shows too much femininity, she risks losing brains, and authority. On the other hand, if a candidate is not feminine enough, she becomes too masculine, strong, shrew, and a bitch. According to Jamieson, gender stereotypes and gendered language are factors reinforcing the bind. The more women begin taking posts traditionally held by males, the more
A president is someone that has exponential leadership, communication skills, is cool under pressure. Secretary Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are two of the main candidates in this presidential election. Throughout the presidential debates, both of the candidates have discussed many issues that affect that citizens of the United States such as immigration, abortion, guns, health care, education, economy and jobs and taxes to list a few. There have been many setbacks in their campaigns, with
parties(Republican and Democrat) as candidates. For the Democratic party, then governor Maggie Hassan sought to win a seat against the incumbent Republican Senator Kelly Ann Ayotte. Maggie Hassan won the seat against the incumbent which was really surprising as the Ayotte won the primaries by a huge margin. Hassan received 47.97% of the vote while Ayotte received 47.84% showing that the margin of win was really slim. In the race, there was also an independent candidate, Aaron Day who received 2.40% of
people know the history behind women and voting as well as each of the candidates and their affiliations. This article even talks about the Republican Party that was expected to nominate Trump and how it was built, which I found very interesting. This party was built by housewives and their political style and views were then adopted by the men. This article was written by David Von Drehle and is very relevant to the presidential debate of 2017. Von Drehle is the editor of Time magazine and has written
are women still motivate and women are still an easy group to mobilize? Logically the answer would be yes since hundreds of suffragettes fought for this fundamental right, but in the most recent presidential election about only 55.6% of all Americans exercised their right to vote. In the United States gender influences a multitude of different experiences, decisions and affiliations many would think more would go out and vote. Throughout this paper it will focus on both voter mobilization and party
For this project, I chose to watch the CNN Presidential Primary election coverage. I watched the coverage on Super Tuesday, and also on Super Saturday. I wanted to see how they portrayed each candidate, and also who was represented in regards to the news anchors. Men were clearly represented more than women on both days, and white males were the most represented overall. While there were female news anchors dissecting the information, the main news anchors were males such as Wolf Blitzer. I found
Obviously not all female Trump voters voted for the Republican candidate due to their ignorance of the positivity of a woman’s role in politics, but sixty percent of white women voted Trump. Therefore, more than half of white women voted for a candidate who has openly, throughout his entire publicized career, used vulgar language towards women, talking about them as objects rather than people, downplaying sexual assault towards the female gender. Women voting for Trump questions whether these women truly
the men and women in and around their environments and their value in politics. It also has the status of women in politics and these facts are proven time and time again. Race, Gender, and Opinion toward Black and Female Presidential Candidates This article brings up the idea of having a black female presidential candidate for president. This is also going in to about Ellen Johnson the question that was given in the article is, if a party nominated a black women for president would you vote for her