Gender Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have vastly different views on gender equality, while Clinton’s policies and future plans, are in favor of equality for all genders, such as her plan to not charge women more for healthcare, Trump thinks quite the opposite. The problem of gender equality has been an ongoing debate in the political world. The official democratic party supports the Paycheck Fairness Act, broadening the Family and Medical Leave Act, and ratifying the Equal Rights Act. Clinton herself has talked at length about Equal Pay. “You know, I’ve devoted a lot of my public life to advocating for women’s rights being human rights, and making the case that we have to do everything we can, through laws, regulations, culture, to change the still-existing stereotypes that hold women back.” Clinton said during her MSNBC …show more content…
Donald Trump and the GOP have quite the opposite view. The official Republican party heavily opposes the UN Convention of Women’s Rights, a branch of the UN that was made specifically to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women. Trump himself has called women fat, ugly, pigs. In a 2004 interview with NBC’s Dateline Trump told the interviewer that a woman carrying a child is “a wonderful thing for the woman, it's a wonderful thing for the husband, it's certainly an inconvenience for a business. And whether people want to say that or not, the fact is it is an inconvenience for a person that is running a business.” Trump has also been recorded saying extremely misogynistic things and has been accused of sexual assault by multiple women. Clinton’s policies on gender equality resonates more with younger, more liberal, voters and a small group of conservatives. Trump’s policies resonate more with far-right Republicans, typically Caucasian men who also believe women are