USA: More women in politics
At the year’s end, the USA elected its first-ever female vice-president, Kamala Harris, who was also the first African-American and Asian-American to hold the office. Alongside Kamala Harris’ victory, in another first, half of the Biden-Harris administration’s appointed cabinet was female. The 2020 national elections also yielded the most diverse Congress in history.
When the 2020 presidential election was called for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, I contacted my nine-year-old niece with the news. She was ecstatic. I was reminded that she belongs to a new generation of Americans who were born under President Barack Hussein Obama. And growing up, she will know that Donald Trump was the President, but she will also know that Trump was beaten by a Black, Indian-American woman. As we were talking, my niece said to me, ‘We are almost there, Auntie.’ And it dawned on me: yes, we are almost there.
Pakou Hang
