When Will The US Ready for Madam President?
Keywords:
Hillary Clinton, madam president, female politician, congresswomen, women senators, women governors, leaderAbstract
The author explores the possibilities and obstacles of having the first madam president of the United States. There are review of literature that examine the similarity of the presidents’ background, study female politician in the U.S., and analyze how they got to the top positions, for example, congresswomen, senators, and governors. Hillary Rodham Clinton will be used as a case study since she is a Democrat nomination for presidency in 2016 and the article will answer the reason why she lost to Donald Trump in the 2016 election. Finally, this article will use percentile of women senators and women governors since 1922 and 1925 respectively, to compare the factor(s) or indicator(s) that are important for presidential candidate to have in order to win the election and become the first madam president of the US.
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