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Opinions | Kamala Harris’s election reinforces women’s right to hold our highest offices Elizabeth Katz Democratic presidential candidate Kamala D. Harris in Portsmouth, N.H., in February 2019. (Elise Amendola/AP) When Kamala D. Harris takes the oath of office on Wednesday as vice president, no serious commenter will question her legal eligibility on the basis of her sex. But for more than a century, Americans bitterly disputed this precise point. Historically, meaningful challenges to women’s officeholding rights typically arose only upon their victories. Thus, Harris’s win, as well as her identity as a lawyer, a woman of color and a representative of a Western state, provide a prime opportunity to highlight key aspects of women’s long fight for equal political rights.

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