Podbit · Call Her Daddy
After Michelle Obama told Alex Cooper she doesn't think America is ready for a female president, Katie Couric said it's probably true right now — citing ongoing backlash and regression in progress on women's rights. She adds that she genuinely believed Hillary Clinton would win and would have been 'a magnificent president.'
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Why do people still instinctively trust men in authority more than women? Katie traces it to early cultural conditioning: our brains are wired from childhood to associate certain images with certain roles, and for so long the image of power has been male. She references a book called Blind Spot that she encountered while making a documentary about sexism in Silicon Valley. The conversation then arrives at the question of a female US president, triggered by Michelle Obama's sobering assessment — made to Alex on a previous Call Her Daddy episode — that America probably isn't ready yet [1] — Katie Couric "After Michelle Obama told Alex Cooper she doesn't think America is ready for a female president, Katie Couric said it's probably true right…" 47:31 . Katie says it's probably true right now, given what she describes as significant backlash and regression on women's rights. She then says she truly believed Hillary Clinton would be elected president and would have been 'a magnificent president' — urging Alex to interview her, calling Clinton 'scary smart.' The conversation widens into a rich exchange about the self-fulfilling cycle of men hiring men they can relate to, the competition vs. solidarity tension among women, and the need to move past a 'scarcity mindset' to the next phase of progress.
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