People attended Women’s March events across the world, a record number of women were elected to Congress in 2018 and six women ran for the Democratic party nomination in 2020, including Harris. Christina Reynolds, a spokesperson for EMILY’s List ...

Black women vote at some of the highest rates in the nation, but after Harris’s defeat, they wonder whether they will ever see one of themselves leading the nation.

Her resounding, swift loss in the presidential race to Republican Donald Trump on November 5 means many things to different people, including the fact that American voters are unable to break the glass ceiling and elect a woman president.

Farida Jalalzai is a professor of political science and associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech Kamala Harris was a candidate of many firsts, including the first Black and South Asian woman to run for president as the Democratic nominee.