【亞比中心系列講座】Will the U.S. ever elect a female President, and what are the implications of that for the rest of the world?

演講主題：Will the U.S. ever elect a female President, and what are the implications of that for the rest of the world?

主講人：Deborah Jordan Brooks 美國達特茅斯學院政府學系副教授 （Associate Professor of the Department of Government, Dartmouth College）

主持人：黃長玲（Chang-Ling HUANG）臺灣大學亞比中心主任、政治學系教授（Director of the GARC and Professor of the Department of Political Science, National Taiwan University）

時間：2025年02月21日（五）12:30-14:00

地點：臺大社科院108室

主辦：國立臺灣大學亞洲社會比較研究中心、國立臺灣大學婦女研究室

演講大綱：

While Taiwan has achieved a greater degree of gender equality in terms of political representation than most countries, the U.S. continues to lag far behind on that front, yet again failing to elect its first female President. A number of news articles in prominent U.S. publications have forwarded the narrative that Kamala Harris lost the election – like Hillary Clinton before her – because both candidates were female, with race positioned as yet an additional hurdle for Harris. This talk will review the evidence for that proposition, while making the case that fear of sexism – perhaps even more than sexism itself – has the potential to keep women underrepresented in the U.S. Moreover, there are reasons to think that these dynamics might affect Democrats more than Republicans after this election, which may have implications for America’s role in the world. During the Q&A we can discuss what the U.S. – as well as Japan, South Korea, and so many other countries – can learn from Taiwan about how to move more effectively towards representational gender equality in the future.