Steinem and the Election

My responses to Gloria Steinem’s questions at the beginning of her article were both yeses. Her point of anonymously presenting Barack Obama’s biography except with a change of sex, and then asking if this seemed like a viable candidate didn’t convince me of any gender bias. It wasn’t until the end of the article when she made several points that I began to see her side of it. Steinem gave five convincing examples in short paragraphs of how Hillary Clinton’s campaign was being affected by a gender bias both in the media and with the voters. One of them was about how women in their 50’s and 60’s disproportionately supported Hillary in their votes, while younger women who, “hope to deny or escape the sexual caste system” were more evenly split amongst the candidates. This made me wonder if the reason why I answered yes to both her questions was because I either was blind to or denied the presence of sexual prejudice. Is it progress that the younger generation doesn’t think about gender in this way, or have we collectively decided just not to deal with the issue?