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Today at Ms. | October 4, 2024 |
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With Today at Ms.—a daily newsletter from the team here at Ms. magazine—our top stories are delivered straight to your inbox every afternoon, so you’ll be informed and ready to fight back. |
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Supporters of former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris gather in front of the CBS Studios during the vice presidential debate between Sen. JD Vance and Gov. Tim Walz, on Oct. 1, 2024, in New York City. (Fatih Aktas/ Anadolu via Getty Images) |
By Rob Okun | From the GOP convention theme song, “It’s a Man’s World,” to Hulk Hogan’s ridiculous tribute to old-school manhood, the Trump campaign gambled that their brand of “tough” masculinity would be a winning strategy against President Biden’s perceived “weak” portrayal of manhood. But Trump was caught off guard when—just three days after his convention ended—he was facing a woman. The Man Card: 50 Years of Gender, Power & the American Presidency is a masterful exposé of the portrayal of gender roles in electing presidents.
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Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) speaks during the vice presidential debate at CBS Studios on Oct. 1, 2024, in New York City. (Ricky Carioti / The Washington Post via Getty Images) |
By Carol Cleaveland and Michele Waslin | Tuesday’s vice presidential debate brought exchanges over the question of asylum and border security, with Sen. JD Vance lying—without real-time fact-checking—about the ease of obtaining asylum. He offered a baseless assertion that people can be “granted legal status at the wave of a Kamala Harris open border wand.”
Winning asylum is extremely difficult, and the horrific conditions forcing women to seek protection from gender-based violence in Central America and Mexico show no signs of abating.
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Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s first female president, speaking during a press conference, on Oct. 3, 2024. (Ian Robles / Eyepix Group / LightRocket via Getty Images) |
By Cynthia Richie Terrell | Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation.
This week: Feminists from around the world meet in Athens, Greece, to talk women’s representation and gender gaps in the European Union; Mexico inaugurated its first woman president Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum, her Cabinet is half women, and the Supreme Court and Congress are headed by women; Alabama is the only state without any legislators who are mothers of school-age children; MSNBC special titled “Black Women in America: The Road to 2024,” focused on the critical influence of Black women in American politics; and more.
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