It’s what pushed women to reach for the ballot.”I watched Barack Obama’s farewell speech from my apartment, getting a bit misty-eyed at hearing those words come from the President of the United States. In a country where we have never had a woman president and where we still fall shamefully below parity when it comes to women’s representation in government and business, the idea that our first black president was also our first openly feminist president felt quite radical. “I may be a little grayer than I was eight years ago, but this is what a feminist looks like,” President Barack Obama told the audience at the United States of Women Summit at the White House in June. In August, Obama wrote a beautiful essay for Glamour focused on his feminist identity and how that identity has informed his political worldview. Our feminist president also took action (or at least attempted to).

Source: Huffington Post January 11, 2017 17:55 UTC