Hillary Clinton on Systemic Sexism and Implicit Bias: ‘I Have To Confess, I Was Surprised By the Level of Sexism’

‘People are not even aware of their implicit bias’

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HILLARY: “You know, in 2016 there were more women, more American women in space than there were running for president, so there were two, just like they're two there now doing the space walk. And I have to confess I was surprised by the level of sexism. And a lot of it, people literally could have passed a lie detector test. 'Do you think what you just said was sexist?' 'No, of course not.' Because it's so deeply embedded that the categorizations that we use when we think about women in public spaces — and so people are often not even aware of their implicit bias. That's true for race and ethnicity lots of other things as well. And then you just begin to see that so many of the attitudes that were expressed toward me are being expressed, you know, toward women running for all kinds of offices. So there is a learning process here and I hope that we're more willing to stand up against it, to speak out against it, to call people out about it. That's true in the media as well because they have their own categories and their own implicit biases. So I guess it takes guts to do it and to keep going, but it should be a lesson that it it shouldn't be this hard for women to be in the public arena."

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