Hillary: Young Women Didn’t Prioritize Having a Woman POTUS Because They Don’t ‘Understand’ All the Sexist ‘Attitudes’

During an interview broadcast on Saturday’s edition of MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton argued that younger women who didn’t see having a female president as a priority did so because they “don’t yet understand” all the “invisible signals and attitudes” that can hold them back.

Hillary responded to a question on younger white women in Iowa who were less likely than younger white women to think having a woman president is a priority by stating, “I think it’s about –, and I try to unpack it, also, in the book. I think it’s about the stage that a young woman finds herself at any particular point in time. Actually, the research is pretty clear. If you’re a young, college-educated woman, and you are starting off in the workforce, you are, pretty much, at wage parity with your counterpart, a young male college graduate. By the end of your 20s, you no longer are. Once you decide, if you do, to be married, to have a family, you fall even further behind. You don’t yet understand all of the, sort of, invisible signals and attitudes that are at work that can hold you back.”

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