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Karrin Vasby Anderson, Professor of Communication Studies, Colorado State University

Democratic men are stepping up for a woman president by stepping back, at last

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff, left, and Democratic VP nominee Tim Walz, two of the men at the Democratic National Convention giving unqualified support to Kamala Harris for president. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

Women have been running for president of the United States since 1872, and for almost that long people have been asking what women need to do in order to break what Hillary Clinton has called the “highest, hardest glass ceiling” left in American culture.

Almost no one has asked what men need to do in order to remedy the problem that the job has been off-limits to more than 50% of the talent pool since … forever.

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