Did gender keep Democratic women from winning the presidential primary?

Kate Manne, FGSS grad field faculty member and author of Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, offers insight on how gender biases influenced the results of the 2020 Democratic primaries.

"It's not that the criticism is illegitimate because it's sexist. It's that we're soft-pedaling the criticism, albeit unwittlingly, when it comes to a male counterpart who's done something very, very similar."

Read the story on NPR. 

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