'Bittersweet': Harris VP Pick Reminds Some Women the Glass Ceiling Is Still Intact

This NBC News article by Lauren Egan cites RepresentWomen's Cynthia Richie Terrell on former President Joe Biden's commitment to picking a female running mate in 2020.

Cynthia Richie Terrell, the founder and executive director of RepresentWomen, a nonpartisan organization that advocates for more women in office, said that Biden's commitment early-on to picking a female running mate is an example of how men can wield their privilege to help change the underrepresentation of women in politics.

"It's an important reminder that executives have a lot of power to accelerate progress to parity,” said Terrell. "It really begins to crack the egg of sexism, and all of a sudden people see that women can also be in positions of power."

Harris, too, seemed to share that view, saying Friday in an interview at The 19th summit that Biden had the "audacity" to choose a Black woman to help break one of the most "substantial barriers that has existed in our country."

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