Chapter 4: Vice President
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audio
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Government
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Publication Date |
Feb 10, 2021
Episode Duration |
00:40:12

For more than 230 years, the occupants of our nation’s highest offices have looked largely the same. Fortunately, that’s no longer true. Kamala Harris is the nation’s first woman Vice President. She is the first Black woman and first South Asian woman in the role. So how did she get here? And perhaps even more importantly, how do we make sure she really isn’t the last?

Over the next month Women belong in the House is turning our attention to a different house: the White House. On this special mini-series, we’ll chart Kamala Harris’ journey — from District Attorney to Attorney General to Senator to Vice President — investigating one of many possible paths to higher office. We’ll talk about Vice President Harris and highlight stories of women on a similar path, elected officials who may one day be in her same position. This groundbreaking moment is about more than one woman’s story. It’s about all the women to come. So we’re going to look at the pipeline by talking to women who’ve served in those same positions from across the country, too.

Women Belong in the White House is produced in partnership with Emerge. 

Kamala Harris is the first woman in U.S. history to serve as Vice President, a role once described by someone in it as not "worth a pitcher of warm spit." What does the Veep actually do? And why does the role matter? Jenny dives into the history of the vice presidency, sheds light on the hurdles women running for executive office face, and chats with another woman hoping to be a significant first. She speaks with a variety of experts, including former North Dakota AG and Senator Heidi Heitkamp and former Virginia State Delegate and current gubernatorial candidate Jennifer Carroll Foy.

For more than 230 years, the occupants of our nation’s highest offices have looked largely the same. Fortunately, that’s no longer true. Kamala Harris is the nation’s first woman Vice President. She is the first Black woman and first South Asian woman in the role. So how did she get here? And perhaps even more importantly, how do we make sure she really isn’t the last?

Over the next month Women belong in the House is turning our attention to a different house: the White House. On this special mini-series, we’ll chart Kamala Harris’ journey — from District Attorney to Attorney General to Senator to Vice President — investigating one of many possible paths to higher office. We’ll talk about Vice President Harris and highlight stories of women on a similar path, elected officials who may one day be in her same position. This groundbreaking moment is about more than one woman’s story. It’s about all the women to come. So we’re going to look at the pipeline by talking to women who’ve served in those same positions from across the country, too.

Women Belong in the White House is produced in partnership with Emerge. 

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