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Welcome to Think Like a Lady! A podcast that enlightens tough issues about a woman’s place in a dominantly man’s world. Our discussions intend to stimulate thought provoking perspectives that are rarely the narrative in mainstream think tanks. From how the age of severe economic inequality has undermined women in the workforce to navigating the intricacies of the early suffragette movements who denied women’s rights to women of color.Let’s face it. Women are awesome. We’re not here to talk about us being awesome as just some empty platitude. We have some staggering data to prove it. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, as of 2019, there are now more women in medical school than men. In fact, according to the U.S. Department of Education, women outpaced men in earning bachelor’s degrees by 1982, they earned more master’s degrees than men by 1987, and by 2006 they took up the majority of doctoral degrees conferred in the United States.Ok, but enough of us gloating. It seems that even though we’re just now beginning to dominate on so many frontiers, we’re still putting up with ridiculous challenges. From facing harassment in mosques, churches and other places of worship, and of course the workplace to the pink tax, Dua and Afroze talk about their own microcosmic experiences that lay bear on an intersection between their experiences as Muslim women who grew up with one foot in the west and the other foot in the east. Women have managed to conquer vast and numerous frontiers despite not being given the reigns to pioneer. It’s time we knocked men off of their high horse.

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S1E15 - When Identity Politics Goes Too Far

November 19, 2020 • Season 1 • Episode 15

Kamala Harris has achieved the vice presidency as not only the first woman, but as a woman of color from Indian and Jamaican descent. In terms of identity politics, many people finally felt represented in the vice presidency, hoping that a woman of her background would benefit communities of color, women, and therefor reflect the constituency and their needs.

However, Due and Afroze discuss a deeper side of identity politics. When identity politics goes too far in that it begins to override Harris’ record and the harm she brings to the office. When identity politics overrides substance, we enter a very dangerous territory. We ask our listeners, what good is a woman, and a person of color occupying the second office in the country if the way she got there involved stepping on the very communities in which she came from. Due and Afroze delve deep into her record, from when she disproportionately targeted communities of color during her time as district attorney of San Francisco through the anti-truancy program and her office soaringly prosecuting marijuana convictions.

If you had to choose between a standard white male with a record of compassion versus a woman of color with a track record riled in corruption. Which would you choose?

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