Gender and Politics: Navigating Power and Perception | Session 3

As we approach the 2024 presidential election in the United States and other elections across the globe, issues of gender, power, perception, and representation are integral components of the political landscape. At this critical juncture, we gather current and former office holders, activists, scholars, and journalists to explore the intersection of gender and politics in the current moment and in comparative perspective.

In a series of multidisciplinary, multiparty sessions, speakers discuss the relationship between gender and elected office or other forms of political involvement; who gets heard in the political sphere; and the role of the media in gendered narratives.

Conversations spotlight local, state, national, and international experiences to explore societal and systemic barriers that inhibit political involvement by traditionally underrepresented gender groups or affect the voices of those who have successfully attained office.


0:00 Welcome Back
Iris Bohnet, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government and codirector of the Women and Public Policy Program, Harvard Kennedy School

3:38 Trailblazer from the Field #3
Rochelle P. Walensky, former director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

19:49 Session 3: Media and Gendered Narratives

Vanessa Friedman, chief fashion critic, New York Times

Tara Setmayer, senior advisor, The Lincoln Project; resident scholar, UVA Center for Politics 2023–2024; former CNN political commentator, contributor to ABC News, and GOP communications director on Capitol Hill

Moderator: Sara Bleich, vice provost for special projects, Harvard University; faculty director of the social sciences program and Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor, Harvard Radcliffe Institute; and professor of public health policy, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

1:20:24 Close of Program
Sara Bleich, vice provost for special projects, Harvard University; faculty director of the social sciences program and Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor, Harvard Radcliffe Institute; and professor of public health policy, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

This event is cosponsored by the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School.

Harvard Radcliffe Institute gratefully acknowledges the Perrin Moorhead Grayson and Bruns Grayson Dean's Leadership Fund for Academic Ventures, which is supporting this event.

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