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Why America Still Doesn’t Have a Female President

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Sally Kohn : If Hillary Clinton wasn't good enough, will a woman ever be good enough to be president? She says it's important not to overstate the role that sexism played in Harris ’s loss.

But some people are biased against female presidential candidates, she says.

She says women who behave in masculine-seeming ways are penalized for not being traditionally feminine.

As a female presidential candidate, “you’re upsetting not just our idea of what presidents should be,” Anderson said.

Burden said he suspects this is because there has never been a female president.

Anderson told me that nominating another woman would be a “strategic risk” for either party.