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Qiaoxi Weng

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Article text courtesy of nytimes.com:

It’s a truism that female candidates for high office face obstacles that men don’t. Less acknowledged is that women face differentobstacles each from the other. Individually and generationally, women confront their own particular impossible dilemmas.

Kamala Harris’s not having to bat down accusations that her ambition makes her unwomanly, in part because she chose not to make breaking the glass ceiling a theme of her campaign. Her particular Achilles’ heel — pointed out by her opponent, who, whatever his manifest unfitness for the job, does have a talent for identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities — is contained in the word “protection.”