Tag: American women

What Women Want

Female voters are showing their power – and it’s not helping President Donald Trump.

AFTER MASSIVE WOMEN’S Marches, a powerful movement to expose sexual harassment and an explosion of women considering a run for elected office, America is almost certain to elect a man to the presidency in November.
However, women will have an enormous – perhaps pivotal – role in deciding which man it will be.

Female voters this year are more involved in the political process and are throwing lopsided support to presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden – in many battleground states, by heavier margins than they backed Hillary Clinton, the first female major party nominee for president, in 2016, according to polling data. Continue reading.

Who’s losing out in the automated economy? Women.

Washington Post logoHeather Long on how older women are being left behind in the new automated economy. Reed Albergotti investigates unwanted sexual behavior on iPhone chat apps. And Julie Zauzmer on Trump’s executive order to combat anti-Semitism on college campuses.

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The disappearing act of administrative assistant jobs 

Jobs such as bookkeeping, secretarial work and data entry have historically been a path for elevation to the middle class. But those jobs are disappearing.

Since 2000, the United States has shed more than 2.1 million administrative and office support jobs. “The vast, vast majority of those jobs are held by women,” says economics correspondent Heather Long. 

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Women voters really, REALLY think Trump’s doing a terrible job

Women disapprove of the job Trump is doing 62 percent to 28 percent. It’s not hard to see why.

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Trump is the least popular president in polling history; for most of his tenure, more than 50 percent of Americans have said they disapprove of the job he’s doing.

But it turns out Trump is especially unpopular among American women. According to a recent NPR/Marist poll, women disapprove of the job Trump is doing by a whopping 62 percent to 28 percent.

It’s not hard to see why.

View the complete September 18 article by Emily Crockett on the ShareBlue.com website here.