So much media chatter about #WomenVoters in #Election2020. Except, if (white, non-college educated) women vote in large numbers for #Biden, doesn't that mean the story is really about why (some) men still love Trump? A Sunday 🧵on gender & the vote. ⤵️ 1/9 To begin, @kdittmar gets it right in this @nytimes piece: "To characterize the women’s vote as if it stands for a single ideology or agenda would be too simplistic...We would rarely make the same characterization for men.” (Follow her.) 2/9
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📢Today #Chile votes in a once-in-a-lifetime referendum that could make history for women & indigenous peoples, among other groups. A quick thread on why you should care & what you need to know, focusing on why #PlebiscitoChile matters for ♀️. ⤵️ 1/8 Today's ballot has Chileans three Qs: should the country hold a convention to write a new constitution? If so, should it be #ConvencionMixta, where the authors are half citizens + half members of Congress, or a #ConvencionConstituyente, where the authors are all citizens? 2/8

The Wall of Moms in Portland joins a long history of women activists using their maternal identities to shame and goad authoritarians. We can compare to #latinamerica. 1/5
usatoday.com/story/news/nat… In #Argentina, for ex, authoritarian dictators claimed to defend the trad order, incl the family. When men security forces attacked women protesters, the activists revealed the regime's hypocrisy: they had attacked that which they claimed to defend. @labaldez @sufranceschet 2/5

In this @bostonreview piece, Shauna Shames & I argue not that democracy has failed women, but that democracy without women fails everyone. A Saturday thread about the awesome @womenalsoknow scholars whose work shaped our piece. 1/11
bostonreview.net/politics-gende… We draw on my research w/ @abclayton24 & @dianazobrien in @AJPS_Editor, which shows that U.S. voters view gender-balanced legislatures as more legitimate than all-male legislatures. Even men & even Republicans have this view. 2/11 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Understanding the situation in Bolivia will require grappling with some serious contradictions that won't fit easy white & black narratives. 1/4 Evo Morales came to power in 2005 and ushered in series of reforms that truly benefited indigenous peoples. He was also a populist who modified the Constitution to stay in power after two terms. 2/4