Fake Nudes and Real Threats: How Online Abuse Holds Back Women in Politics
Female politicians face more personal online attacks than their male counterparts, researchers have found. That online abuse can escalate into violence.
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June 3, 2021, 8:09 p.m. ET
“The social media environment is so gendered and full of vile material when it comes to women politicians.” Julia Gillard, Australia’s first, and only, female prime minister, in a 2019 interview
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The first year that more than two women simultaneously served in the U.S. Senate was 1992. It was dubbed the “Year of the Woman.”
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