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Valeria Reyes

ENGL 1301- 129

Judith McCann

3, November 2021

Females are not ready to be president

Being a president of a country means a lot of responsibilities and hard work. The first president of

the United States was created in the year 1789 which was George Washington. Over history we have had

men people as presidents, but we had never had a woman as a president. The society thinks that the United

States is not ready to have a woman as a president. In fact, they are many websites where it states why the

U.S is not ready to have a female as a president.

To begin with, A great example for this argument can be when Hillary Clinton was

running for president of the United States. In this case people decided to vote for Donald trump

instead of Hillary Clinton because Donald trump had stated that he wanted to “Make America

Again.” This means that he wanted to people wanted to see a big change in their country. People

thought that because Donald trump is a man, he was going to take care of the country than

Hillary Clinton. Another reason why people decided to vote for Donald Trump instead of Hillary

Clinton is because they where afraid and resisted diversity. In fact, in Hillary’s campaign she had

promise that in droves which made people be scared of her. People decided to vote for Trump

because they felt more protected with him than with Hillary Clinton. On the other hand,

obviously women decided to vote for Hillary Clinton because they where women and they

wanted to support their gender. One of the reasons why many women decided to support her

instead of supporting trump is because she will make opportunities for people. Some of the

opportunities Hillary Clinton was going to make is having equality with people, expand the
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minimum wages, confront violence against female, protect women’s rights, and also their health

rights. Since Hillary Clinton was going to fight more for the equality of women there was more

women than men that decided to vote for her. One of the reasons why women decided to vote for

Hillary Clinton rather than Donald Trump it is because they felt that their voice was finally going

to be heard and that they would have more advantages if there was a woman as a U.S president.

In some cases, Hillary Clinton received a lot of gender related explanation against her.

This means that there was a lot of sexism against Hillary Clinton. One of the reasons why people

were sexism with her is because they thought that a women couldn’t be strong enough to be in

charge of a country which in this case it was the United States. In fact, In the year 1966 Fiske

and Glick stated that male’s power was on Political, religious institution, and economic. They

also said that women would dyadic power. In another words, these two people said that Politics

was not meant for woman instead it was only meant for men. They thought that women weren’t

smart enough to get on politics stuff. In fact, sometimes women want to have the men’s power

which makes them look like a feminist. What this means is that if a women would be the United

States president, she would want to do things by herself without receiving any man’s help which

would make her look like a feminist.

Another reason why a women shouldn’t be the United States president is because of the

social role theory. This means that women in the U.S are more likely to do housekeeping rather

than working. One of the reasons why people think that is because they have had that mentality

that women are meant to be in their house and men should go look for a job. A woman is most

likely to get paid less than a man depending on their occupation. People think that women have

less power than men which makes them look they do not have acknowledge in some of the

things. They also think that if women would be the leaders of something they were considered as
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having a masculine leadership style. What this means is that women are considered more hostile.

For instance, Hillary Clinton was not accepted by many voters and was evaluated in a

negative way. One of the reasons why She was evaluated that way is because she wanted

independence which made some voters think she did not wanted any help. Some people think

that both the female and leadership role was too much for the Americans. Sometimes there can

be different types of stereotypes such as the warmth which means the prediction of competition

and inferior which is noncompetitive people. This can relate with this topic because it is

predicted that women are less likely to win in a presidency election. In fact, Hillary Clinton was

considered with low warmth and high warmth if competing. In other words, people will always

steretoyping others. Sometimes people think that just because it is a woman, they are not capable

of doing something. In some cases, people think that women want to be feminist, but they just

want the same respect and be treated equal. One example is can be Hillary Clinton, she was been

treated unfairly and have mean comments. People are been sexist with her because they treated

in a bad way just because she is a female which is unacceptable.