2016 Postmortem
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Glamour Exclusive: President Barack Obama Says, "This Is What a Feminist Looks Like"
By Barack Obama
August 4, 2016
.....perhaps the greatest unexpected gift of this job has been living above the store. For many years my life was consumed by long commutesfrom my home in Chicago to Springfield, Illinois, as a state senator, and then to Washington, D.C., as a United States senator. Its often meant I had to work even harder to be the kind of husband and father I want to be.
But for the past seven and a half years, that commute has been reduced to 45 secondsthe time it takes to walk from my living room to the Oval Office. As a result, Ive been able to spend a lot more time watching my daughters grow up into smart, funny, kind, wonderful young women.
That isnt always easy, eitherwatching them prepare to leave the nest. But one thing that makes me optimistic for them is that this is an extraordinary time to be a woman. The progress weve made in the past 100 years, 50 years, and, yes, even the past eight years has made life significantly better for my daughters than it was for my grandmothers. And I say that not just as President but also as a feminist.
This fall we enter a historic election. Two hundred and forty years after our nations founding, and almost a century after women finally won the right to vote, for the first time ever, a woman is a major political partys presidential nominee. No matter your political views, this is a historic moment for America. And its just one more example of how far women have come on the long journey toward equality.......
http://www.glamour.com/story/glamour-exclusive-president-barack-obama-says-this-is-what-a-feminist-looks-like
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