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Women candidates have two unique problems. They have trouble raising money and being taken seriously by the media.

— Maureen Reagan

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who were brought up in a different culture.

— Eleanor Clift

Politics need to stop treating women as a special-interest group.

— Eva Longoria

Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?

— Dorothy Thompson

The press always causes a certain amount of hesitance for people who are considering entering public life. So simply encouraging women to enter politics, on any level, not just on the state level, is extremely important.

— Kerry Healey

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.

— Maureen Murphy

I'm such a huge advocate for strong, intelligent representation of women in the media.

— Emma Ishta

Women are not all single-issue voters.

— Carly Fiorina

✗Opposing Perspectives

Women are tough campaigners. They certainly know how to withstand attacks. And I think we make a mistake if we say, as some do, that women should play by different rules, or that they are somehow especially vulnerable to the rules of politics. I don't think that's true.

— Ellen Malcolm

Women politicians take their job seriously and accomplish their duties diligently and sensitively. Only they can understand the problems of women and act as a sounding board for their concerns.

— Preneet Kaur

All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.

— Eddie Bernice Johnson