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Women Presidential Candidates

During the presidential races, the question about having female candidates has been a main theme that has
brought about a societal shift that has led to more sensitive treatment of women issues. In the course of
history, politics had always been dominated by men. In recent times, however, we have witnessed an
influence of women making their way into the political arena and gradually challenging the traditional
norms. The situation of a woman to be the highest level in the nation is not only revealing political
representation but also granting a visible symbol of the society changes.
There is quite a curial focus on the issue of burdens that the female presidential candidates have in the
lecture. Gender injustice and stereotypes still exist, making some of the critics raise a doubt that whether
women are capable of doing the tasks that are allocated to the president. The analysis of their looks,
individual life, and feelings gets extended to their policy guidelines, create a phenomenon where female
choice must undergo extra stress just the other way has done with the males. This analogy shows that we
need to get to more accommodative, just political environment.
The fact that we can witness women contesting the presidential election is one of the greatest
achievements in recent years, signifying the change of attitudes during that period. In particular, the
victory of prominent women, like for example Hillary Clinton, demonstrated that enough of voters feel
comfortable with the idea of female politicians. These candidates frequently tend to highlight areas like
health and education policies, which sometimes could serve as a bulk of their campaign slogans, and
might bring different points of views on the center stage of political discussion.
The overall effect of women in the leadership positions is not the key symbolic representation. Data are
compelling which shows that teams that represent various nationalities and females make better decisions
than those with the one type of view point. This signifies that female presidential candidates can add to
the effectiveness and productivity of some forming the government.
In light of the above, the discussion on whether a woman is capable of being a head of state is diverse and
ranges from the challenges they must master as well as contributions towards achieving a closer gender
parity. Consequently, the more women are breaking through the glass ceiling in politics implies even
more of unmasking and fighting against bias-forming political ecosystems in which female gender
remains less valuable. As a result, female leadership design

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