Senior Niketa Brar, a Hatchet columnist, writes about how this year’s election has impacted the role of women in politics.
“With Hillary and Sarah weighing down either end of the feminist spectrum, it’s time to find a compromise. Thankfully, we won’t have to wait for another generation to bring her into politics. We’ll just have to wait until January 20.
“Michelle Obama has managed to do what neither Hillary Clinton nor Sarah Palin have achieved with their varying degrees of political experience. Combining her fearless feminism with an independent voice, Michelle is everything political women need to be.”
Read her full column here.
I don’t understand how Michelle Obama being a classy first lady (which she is, no argument!) breaks the glass ceiling. Or is the argument that we need to be like her to break it? Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin were running for something. Michelle Obama is a smart and beautiful woman who is married to someone who ran for something. Big difference to me, and I don’t think this article addresses that there is a difference at all. To me there is a big difference between being the one running and being in a personal relationship with someone running. Hillary Clinton was not running for Mom-in-Chief, as the first lady-elect has styled herself. She was running for leader of the free world.