“Our country has endured high opportunity costs for keeping white men in power for so long while ignoring the political contributions women could make.”

-CAWP’s @DebbieWalsh58 and @kdittmar in @USATODAY @usatodayopinion https://t.co/F10uL1iiRT

— CAWP (@CAWP_RU) August 5, 2020

CAWP Scholar Kelly Dittmar and CAWP Director Debbie Walsh publish an op-ed in USA Today that reflects on the attention paid to Biden’s selection of a vice presidential nominee and warns, “We should take this moment to celebrate the woman nominee, not the act of nominating a woman.” The authors add that selecting a woman nominee is neither revolutionary nor an act of sacrifice for Biden’s presidential campaign. Instead, they argue that selecting a woman is overdue.