Nostalgic for the sexism unleashed in response to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 run? Welcome to the prolonged Democratic veepstakes. Immodest. Ambitious. Unlikable. These are the strangely enduring criticisms that travel with women in politics, no matter how many firsts keep adding up or how numerous their congressional numbers become.

"Nostalgic for the sexism unleashed in response to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 run? Welcome to the prolonged Democratic veepstakes."

Vocalize your strengths and loudly declare to the world how amazing you are until you start to believe it yourself. And help other women along the way. Applaud your female peers to give them the confidence to applaud themselves. Women supporting other women is key to more women succeeding in business, particularly in leadership roles.

While the world is still dismissive of women with ambition, plenty of female power players are hoping to change that.

Desire Has Always Been 'Cultured'

The women whose ambition wasn’t a problem for them, were all hypothetical. Real, human women have yet to see the same results.

>"Black women have long known this. With Kamala Harris as Biden’s V.P. pick, perhaps there’s an opportunity to change the idea that aspirations are something to apologize for."

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In 1956, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, he campaigned aggressively to be vice president, said Keneshia Grant, an associate professor of political science at Howard University. His father, she noted, had even offered to pay for Lyndon B. Johnson’s run if he promised to choose his son as a running mate.

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