A Young Girl Dreams of the White House

I was snuggling up with my five year old daughter last night and trying to get some work done. My daughter was looking at my laptop and asking me about the things she saw on the screen. We came across a picture of Hillary Clinton on a news site and I asked my daughter if she knew who it was. She did not.

 I said, “She is the woman that ran for president last year. Remember?”

 My daughter said, “But women can’t be president. That’s what people think.”

 ”But they are wrong,” I replied. “Women are presidents in other countries, just not ours.”

 ”That’s not fair,” she said.

 ”No it’s not. Maybe you can be the first woman president. Would you like that?”

She nodded and for a moment I was proud; full of hope and possibility. And then she said, “Or maybe my husband will be president.”

Yeah. Maybe.

As they say in the Twitterverse #feministmomfail.

Tags: gender gap, Hillary Clinton, parenting

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