There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman's place is in the home still lingers in some quarters.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Women are not only deciding the outcome of elections, they serve as important role models for their daughters and other young women - they hold a key to expanding the way in which women value and experience politics.
There are some voters who are rather traditional and have some reservations about electing a woman leader. But the younger generation are excited to have a woman leader for the country. They think it is somewhat trendy.
It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth.
Women need to become conscious of the impact that their attitudes and actions can have on future generations of voters and politicians.
To anger female voters in America is to tread on the tiger's tail. Women turn out in huge numbers, and they are well aware of how their bodies work and what they need.
So many women don't have voices in their governments.
I'm not an elected official who puts a finger in the wind to see what the majority thinks; I represent women, whether they're popular or not.
When given the chance, women have proven they will participate in the electoral process.
You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in academia, and as forepeople in factories.
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.