Are Americans ready to elect a woman as president?

Many Americans say they are ready to elect a woman president, but they are not sure that all Americans share their views.

While most Americans claim they are prepared to head a woman, many fewer believe that people will accept this possibility.

A poll conducted by the "Lynn" group to advocate for women in September 2019, found that while 53% of voters consider themselves "very ready" to head a woman, only 16% believe that most Americans share the same opinion.

"If voters do not believe America is ready, they tend to be less likely to vote for a woman themselves," Lynn said in a statement to ABC News.

Does a woman win the presidency?
In a report published by the American newspaper "New York Times", the writer Michel Cotle said that the drama has nothing to do with the recent democratic presidential debate with political differences or competing visions for the party's future.

This drama revolves around a failed handshake, accusations of sex discrimination and a dispute over what was said at a 2018 dinner between Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, who are now fighting for the title of the role model progressive.

Warren claims that Sanders told her during a dinner in late 2018 that he did not believe a woman could win the presidency. But he rejected the charge, calling it "ridiculous."

When the moderators of the debate asked him about Warren's comment, he denied the validity of the matter again, saying, "Anyone who knows me well realizes that it is inconceivable to think that a woman is not able to become president of the United States."

Time to discuss the issue
Warren did not waste time talking about what was said and what was not said, but rather directly shed light on the main issue.

She pointed out that Sanders was one of her friends, stressing that she had not participated in the debate to fight with him. But the idea of ​​whether a woman can be president or not has already been raised and it is time to discuss it.

At the end of the debate, Warren ignored and perhaps even refused to shake hands with Sanders' outstretched hand, and the atmosphere seemed charged between them. Immediately gone mad on social media, and the feud between Warren and Sanders became the story's event.

However, the reason is not that Sanders' alleged statements revealed that he was a man who was heavily biased against women. But these statements have aroused the same fear that many Democrats have expressed reluctantly, namely, whether the United States is genuinely unwilling to elect a president.

Elizabeth Warren is not Hillary Clinton
For some, it sounds ridiculous and not worth worrying about. As Sanders pointed out, Hillary Clinton won in 2016 an additional three million votes compared to Donald Trump, but she did not win the presidency, although she faced the most inappropriate rival in US history.

Elizabeth Warren is not Hillary Clinton, because she lacks some of Clinton's strengths and experience. However, it may be hard to believe that Trump's bizarre policy and direct appeal to racial, sexual, and other forms of intolerance can easily be used against a competitor who is already facing gender-based obstacles.

Countless hours have been devoted to studying sexual prejudice against which female candidates struggle. Among other disturbing disparities, women who deviate from the traditional gender roles face a risk that the men (and women) who value those roles will respond violently.

Men and women look negatively for ambitious women
Women in positions of power are considered less legitimate than their male counterparts, and ambitious women are seen more negatively by both men and women, compared to ambitious men.

According to Peter Bennart, a professor of journalism and political science at New York City University, these biases could provoke a violent response.

Bennart cited a research paper issued in 2010 to two researchers at Yale, who concluded that "people's opinions of a fictional senator on a state did not change when they were told he was ambitious."

When it comes to a state senator and being ambitious, both men and women feel feelings of moral anger, such as contempt, anger, and disgust, according to the researchers.

In a race like this one, the perceptions of bias in others are of great importance. This data - in addition to conversations about gender-based voter concerns, which Warren encountered - helps explain why Sanders' alleged comments sparked these reactions.

Candidates and their supporters don't just worry about Sanders being wrong, but they're worried he'll be right.