2016 Presidential Election Gender Bias

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One particular thing that has interested me about the 2016 Presidential election gender bias. I became interested in this particular topic when it got brought up in class. I was interested because we were talking about how Trump gets away with more in terms of what he says and how he acts. If Clinton did any of things Trump has done, she would have been out of the presidential race along time ago. For example, if Clinton had suggested building a wall between the US and Mexico, people would have thought she was insane. But is this really gender bias? Could another male candidate get away with the same things Trump does? Or is it because that's how we know Donald Trump’s personality to be? One compelling opinion I found was an article from The New York Times entitled “Feminism, Hell and Hillary Clinton,” by Frank Bruni. In the article he states that people shouldn't be voting because of gender but because of what the person has to offer and how they would improve our country. …show more content…

Our DNA has been encoded with the male model of leadership. Women leaders remain outliers.” I feel this is important because everyone knows there have been more men than women leaders in our history. But it is definitely not encoded in our DNA because Clinton clearly wouldn't have made it this far into the

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