1. The presidential campaign focused mostly on gun control laws, the wars (including the war on drugs), racial privileges, and a few other things including calling each other names, but there were a few subject mentioned that would positively effect women’s lives. The candidates talked about equal pay for women in order to close the pay gap, a women’s right to choose was also mentioned, and paid family-maternal leave.
2. The candidates did mentioned paid family leave in the debate, specifically Hilary Clinton. Hilary Clinton felt strongly about giving parents paid leave to give their children the attention, love, and affection in which kids need. Paid family leave is an important policy to put in place because it allows familites to be together when it is the most crucial. Paid family leave allows a mother to give her child the nourishment and care it need whilst also being able to make a bond with the child. The first few week is an important time for both the mother and father to make a bond with the child, to be in
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Gender equality was mentioned once when talking about the pay gap, but only for a brief moment of time. I believe the issue of gender equality could have been mentioned more often in the debate. The candidates could have talked further about the problem of the pay gap and discussed the policies and/or programs that they would implement in order to fix the problem. Secondly, the candidate did not discuss the problems abortion policies or a women’s right to choose, nor did the discuss how they were going to protect those outside of the gender binary. The candidates should have discussed ways in which they would make not only the workplace equal, but how they would make the streets safer for women. When talking about global warming I was wishing that the next question would be about reforming the rape policies, laws, and rape kit prices would be the next topic of discussion, but really all the candidates wanted to do was pick at each other