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How Women Are Driving American Politics: Curated by Susan Page
The 2020 election was all about women. Women as voters defeated President Trump in his bid for a second term. Women as candidates reached record numbers, including gains in the GOP. And the first woman was elected vice president, although the nation’s highest glass ceiling remained unbroken. These articles explore how it happened and why it matters.
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On Shirley Chisholm and other black female groundbreakers
The next vice president of the United States, Sen. Kamala Harris, is the American daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants. With Joe Biden’s …
Vice president-elect Kamala Harris, profiled
The Presidential candidate has been criticized as a defender of the status quo. Can she prove that she’s a force for change? This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. One day in early June, Kamala Harris, the junior senator from California, tapped the glass of the bakery case at …
What Kamala Harris’ white suit at the victory speech meant
Correction: November 10, 2020 This article has been revised to reflect the following correction: An earlier version of a picture caption with this article referred incorrectly to the children pictured with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. They are her grand-nieces, not her nieces. On Saturday …
The challenges of being a “first"
Amid the celebratory memes rocketing around yesterday, other women of color who’ve cracked through ceilings have some advice: Buckle up. So many firsts. First woman. First Black vice president. First Black woman vice president. First South Asian American. First South Asian American woman. First VP …
The success of Republican women in congressional races in 2020
We’re the only newsroom dedicated to writing about gender, politics and policy. Subscribe to our newsletter today. Election night was a good one for …
The Women’s March in 2017 and what it started
Can a movement embracing such wide-ranging goals — from protecting immigrants to stopping climate change, from racial justice and religious diversity to reproductive freedom — channel its support into sustained political action? Other recent movements, like Black Lives Matter and Occupy Wall …
The message from women voters in the suburbs
This is the first in a series of stories looking at the people who could cast the most decisive votes in the 2020 election. You can read Dylan Scott’s story on Rust Belt workers here and Li Zhou’s story on Arizona youth here. Before she got Covid-19, Katie Mazzocco had a plan for every part of her life. …
On the glass ceiling left unbroken, the presidency
In Washington, it once seemed reasonable to conclude that 2020 would be a good year for a woman to seek the Democratic nomination for president. For the party's voters around the country, not so much. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren's exit from the race Thursday left a party that emphasizes its …
On the 100th anniversary of suffrage, Women of the Century
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About the Author
Susan Page is the Washington Bureau chief of USA TODAY and the author of "MADAM SPEAKER: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power," being published by Twelve/Hachette in April 2021. The 2020 election was the 11th campaign she has covered. She’s interviewed the past nine presidents; when President-elect Biden takes office, that number will tick up to 10. She’s also the author of the New York Times best-seller, "THE MATRIARCH: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty."
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! The definitive biography of Nancy Pelosi, the most powerful woman in American political history, written by New …
