Politics November 11, 2016
Photo by Gerald Herbert/AP/REX/ShutterstockIn the wake of Hillary Clinton’s presidential loss, many diverse women are making headlines with their outstanding victories. Yet one woman’s story is getting passed up – Kellyanne Conway is the first female campaign manager to win an election for a presidential candidate. Despite her win, Conway has received little to no recognition for her accomplishments. So why is her success undermined by the media?
Conway represented Donald Trump, a male candidate with a controversial history with women. Because of her support for Trump and her conservative political ideologies, Conway may have alienated liberal women. This might be the reason behind her accomplishment’s lack of representation in the media. In fact, when the media does cover Conway, she is represented in a less than favorable light. For instance, the focus of Conway’s extensive resume is often her pageant career.
Hillary Clinton may not have shattered the highest glass ceiling, but Kelly Conway has broken a different one with Donald Trump’s election. She’s the first woman to lead a campaign to secure a presidential victory, setting a precedent for young women interested in the career and letting them know that there is room for women in the political world.
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In addition, she recently shared that she has been offered a job in the White House for Trump’s administration, according to The Wall Street Journal. Yet when Twitter learned this information, users claimed that she rejected the position.
Her response? “False. Could it be those ‘sources’ want the WH job I’ve been offered?” she wrote on Twitter.
Her blunt and direct retort is powerful – especially for a women who feels she is being misrepresented by the media. She continued by confirming her dedication to the new President-elect’s administration. “I will serve in whatever capacity I’m asked, where I feel like I can be most helpful,” she added in a Twitter status.
Aside from her success as past campaign manager and potential member of the Trump administration, Conway’s other accomplishments are quite impressive. She is a well-educated woman with degrees from Trinity College, Oxford University and George Washington University Law Center. Conway is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa, a high-ranking honor society to which 17 U.S. Presidents, 39 U.S. Supreme Court Justices and more than 130 Nobel Laureates belong, according to the Phi Beta Kappa website.
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Additionally, Conway has even published a book titled “What Women Really Want: How American Women Are Quietly Erasing Political, Racial, Class, and Religious Lines to Change the Way.”
Her personal life is equally inspirational. Prior to her political career, the accomplished lady spent most of her childhood with similarly strong women. “I grew up in a house with my mom and her mom, and two of my mother’s unmarried sisters,” she explained to Newsmax. “So four Italian Catholic women raised me.”
Her upbringing and education have prepared her for the world of politics. Yet she doesn’t let the negativity of the field bring her down – she uses strength to beat the system. “I’ve been in a very male-dominated business for decades,” she told The New Yorker. “I found, particularly early on, that there’s plenty of room for passion, but there’s very little room for emotion … I tell people all the time, ‘Don’t be fooled, because I am a man by day.'”
Setting political beliefs aside, ENTITY is proud of Kellyanne Conway’s accomplishment in the political arena. With Hillary Clinton’s loss, many women feel that the glass ceiling has been strengthened – but the opponent’s own campaign manager may have added a few cracks.
