{"id":506,"date":"2008-01-08T18:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T23:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=506"},"modified":"2008-01-08T18:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T23:07:00","slug":"hillary-feminism-and-the-age-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/01\/08\/hillary-feminism-and-the-age-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary, Feminism, and the Age Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having written a <a>book on feminism and the age gap<\/a>, it&#8217;s ENDLESSLY interesting to me the way younger women&#8217;s votes are being taken as a barometer of the state of feminism.  To wit, Michael Barone begins his U.S. News article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/blogs\/barone\/2008\/1\/7\/young-women-feminism-and-hillary-clinton.html\">&#8220;Young Women, Feminism, and Hillary Clinton,&#8221;<\/a> like so:<br \/><span style=\"font-style:italic\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s interesting that in Iowa, Hillary Clinton lost to Barack Obama by a wide margin among younger women. The idea of a first woman president evidently is not of great appeal to them. I think this is part of a larger story about the decline, or perhaps the maturation, of American feminism.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span>As <a href=\"http:\/\/feministing.com\/archives\/008363.html#more\">Ann over at feministing notes<\/a>, the reasons one chooses one&#8217;s candidate are often much more complicated than that.  <\/p>\n<p>Regardless, anyone seen the breakdown of women voters by age in New Hampshire yet?  Just curious.  I know I gotta write more about this somewhere&#8230;so many things to write, so little time! Alas.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, be sure to check out the February issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.more.com\/more\/\">More<\/a> for a forum I coordinated in which women in the public eye weigh in with their thoughts on Hillary.  Their responses may surprise you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having written a book on feminism and the age gap, it&#8217;s ENDLESSLY interesting to me the way younger women&#8217;s votes are being taken as a barometer of the state of feminism. To wit, Michael Barone begins his U.S. News article, &#8220;Young Women, Feminism, and Hillary Clinton,&#8221; like so: &#8220;It&#8217;s interesting that in Iowa, Hillary Clinton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[71,10745,21929],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-intergenerational","tag-political-campaigns","tag-womens-leadership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}