The Jo Freedman article gives an overview of the history of women running for president. In an election year that for the first time in history a woman has received the nomination for a major party, it is important to study the women who predate Hillary Clinton. Freedman discusses that the first women who ran for president used it as a platform for discussion of issues that they felt personally about. When reading the rest of Freedman over view it reveals that women for the majority were doing just that same thing. Women running for president worked with minor parties and never ended up on most ballots in the primary. It did not matter because instead they were allowing for their voices to be heard. It gave them a platform to express what they
