Suzanna Walters, professor of sociology and director of Northeastern’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program answers the question: do young women have an obligation to vote for Clinton?
Feminist icons Gloria Steinem and Madeleine Albright are facing a wave of backlash for comments suggesting that women who support Bernie Sanders instead of Hillary Clinton need to smarten up. The rebuke has drawn the ire of journalists, political pundits, and scores of Sanders’ female supporters, some of whom have accused both women of undermining feminism. Now, according to a New York Times report, another one of Clinton’s surrogates is suggesting that Albright and Steinem be “kept away” from the campaign.
Do young women, as Albright implied, have an obligation to vote for Clinton? We asked Suzanna Walters, professor of sociology and director of Northeastern’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program.
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