General Discussion

There is a ton of research on this. If people in a society see women as a group as “less than” men, it’s going to be harder for equally qualified (or better) female candidates to win. H. Clinton was just one of many examples of this. And we have evidence of many factors that have led people in the US to continue to hold biases, many of which are unconscious.

There is also evidence that women candidates in general have more difficulty than do men in raising campaign money.