Likable Enough – Women, Voting and Power

About the Episode

The Likability quotient for women office seekers seems to be more unforgiving than for men. Check out the views from Black women politicos.

  • Adrienne Shropshire
    Executive Director, BlackPAC

    “Every time a woman stands up, it creates the space for us to move towards a woman sitting in the Oval Office.”

  • Glynda Carr
    Executive Director, Higher Heights for America

    “We don’t go to the polls alone. We bring our house, our block, our church, our sorority, and our union.”

  • Leah Daughtry
    Founder & Co-Convener, PowerRising

    “And it just so happens when Black women succeed, everybody else succeeds as well.”

  • Kelly Dittmar
    Scholar, Eagleton Center on Women and Politics

    “These biases, both likability and electability, really force women candidates to run two campaigns at one time”

    Editorial Team
    October 13, 2020

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