Topic：Will the U.S. ever elect a female President, and what are the implications of that for the rest of the world?
Speaker：Deborah Jordan Brooks （Associate Professor of the Department of Government, Dartmouth College）
Moderator：黃長玲（Chang-Ling HUANG）（Director of the GARC and Professor of the Department of Political Science, National Taiwan University）
Time：12:30-14:00，Fri. Feb 21，2025
Venue: Room 108, College of Social Sciences, National Taiwan University
Abstract：
While Taiwan has achieved a greater degree of gender equality in terms of political representation than most countries, the U.S. continues to lag far behind on that front, yet again failing to elect its first female President. A number of news articles in prominent U.S. publications have forwarded the narrative that Kamala Harris lost the election – like Hillary Clinton before her – because both candidates were female, with race positioned as yet an additional hurdle for Harris. This talk will review the evidence for that proposition, while making the case that fear of sexism – perhaps even more than sexism itself – has the potential to keep women underrepresented in the U.S. Moreover, there are reasons to think that these dynamics might affect Democrats more than Republicans after this election, which may have implications for America's role in the world. During the Q&A we can discuss what the U.S. – as well as Japan, South Korea, and so many other countries – can learn from Taiwan about how to move more effectively towards representational gender equality in the future.
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