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Julie Kohler
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Julie Kohler is a fellow in residence at the National Women’s Law Center and serves as a senior advisor at the Democracy Alliance, a progressive donor network. She has a PhD in family social science and serves on the advisory board to Family Story . You can find her on Twitter .
While the ‘electability’ myth helped sink women in the Democratic primaries, women are winning big at the state and local level.
The Weinstein investigation ignited a movement because it exposed the vulnerability that millions of working women face.
The Republican base that has coalesced around Trump has been increasingly characterized by “hostile sexism”—and women are turning away.
As misogyny and white supremacy are making a frightening comeback, conservatives have been emboldened to relitigate basic assumptions about women’s equality.
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For decades, majorities of white women have voted with the GOP, but some are hoping to cross boundaries—and change politics.
Progressives need to rethink their approach to developing political talent.
White women do not—and likely will not—constitute the progressive base. But many more of them might vote Democratic in the coming elections.
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