The film Makers: Women in Politics outline the historical development of the role and participation of women in the U.S. electoral system. In the early years of the U.S. government, women were both barred from voting and running in political office. Women did not gain the right to vote until 1920 – 144 years into the republic. Around this period, women were generally designated to provide supporting roles such as to doing grassroots work in political campaigns by men. However, there was a trend in this period, which women served in political office but were appointed as a result of their husbands, serving politicians, passed away with a remainder of their term left. These women who did serve generally followed the agendas set out by their
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Women respondents perceived more importance on intelligence and honesty than the men respondents as well as placed higher emphasis on compassion and innovation. Out of these characteristics, what I find to be most essential is compassion and organization. Compassion is a desire to understand and to hear people from marginalized groups from where they are at while organization is to implement policies that encourage/influence others’ self-determination and survival. (Pew Research …show more content…
Men and women may differ, though it’s not definitive, and should be evaluated within a context of intersectionality. According to Himani Bannerji, intersectionality is a “sense of being in the world, textured though myriad social relations and cultural forms, is lived or felt or perceived as being all together and all at once.” (Bannerji 144)
As we learned in chapter 11 of Thinking About Women, the historical development of the state has broadly been gendered, “As one of the most bureaucratic of all institutions, the state operates as if it were neutral, when, in fact, according to feminists, it is organized on quite gender-specific grounds.” (Anderson 326) But what this does not take into account is that the state is also racialized and classist. The increasing trend that middle to upper income white women are winning high level political office may be progress to a certain extent but also may be a façade of
Women respondents perceived more importance on intelligence and honesty than the men respondents as well as placed higher emphasis on compassion and innovation. Out of these characteristics, what I find to be most essential is compassion and organization. Compassion is a desire to understand and to hear people from marginalized groups from where they are at while organization is to implement policies that encourage/influence others’ self-determination and survival. (Pew Research …show more content…
Men and women may differ, though it’s not definitive, and should be evaluated within a context of intersectionality. According to Himani Bannerji, intersectionality is a “sense of being in the world, textured though myriad social relations and cultural forms, is lived or felt or perceived as being all together and all at once.” (Bannerji 144)
As we learned in chapter 11 of Thinking About Women, the historical development of the state has broadly been gendered, “As one of the most bureaucratic of all institutions, the state operates as if it were neutral, when, in fact, according to feminists, it is organized on quite gender-specific grounds.” (Anderson 326) But what this does not take into account is that the state is also racialized and classist. The increasing trend that middle to upper income white women are winning high level political office may be progress to a certain extent but also may be a façade of