10 Ways Every Woman Can Be More Politically Active in 2017
‘What can I do’ is the lament I’ve heard again and again since November 9th, that fateful day when we all woke up in a collective trance unable to comprehend the fact that the unimaginable had happened and Hillary Clinton had lost the election. The misogyny she was subjected to on that long, grueling, insulting campaign represented the everyday sexism we’ve become accustomed to, but magnified a thousand-fold on the world stage. Hillary personified every promotion we’d ever been passed over for, every time we were paid less than our male counterparts, the objectification, the mansplaining, the double standards, and it hurt. The spirit of activism had been awoken in all of us.
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