Good morning, Broadsheet readers! Women won more than half of Team USA’s medals at the Olympics, only 33 Fortune 500 companies sponsor women's pro sports, and Kamala Harris would be the first female president—but she's talking about other issues on the campaign trail. Have a lovely Tuesday.
- First report. Kamala Harris would be the first female president—voters know it, and she knows it. It's obvious. Is it so obvious she doesn't feel the need to talk about it?
As I've watched Harris's short campaign so far, that's a question I've been asking. With memories of Hillary Clinton's 2016 #ImWithHer, I've wondered whether Harris is running on the history-making nature of her candidacy in the same way Clinton did, with her slogan, white pantsuits, and election-night glass ceiling at the Javits Center. Nadia Brown, a professor of government and chair of the women's and gender studies program at Georgetown University, explains: "What we're seeing from Harris's campaign is an acknowledgement that it's there, but it's not something that she's always talking about—because everyone else is aware," that this is a historic race, she says.
