At Wellesley college, Hillary Clinton's alma mater, young women are split on the Clinton vs. Obama issue, The Washington Post
reports. For instance: Katie Chanpong and Aubre Carreon Aguilar are
both feminists and political activists. "If you're a woman, you vote
for Hillary because of what it means to women everywhere," says Ms.
Chanpong, a sophomore. Ms. Aguilar, a senior, says: "If I'm supposed to
vote for Hillary just because I'm a woman, that's kind of sexist." The
female-only school finds many of its students are having to decide what
it means to be a feminist, writes Eli Saslow. "Do you vote for a woman
to shatter the glass ceiling and further the cause? Or do you make an
empowered, individual decision that is not confined by gender?" Ona
Keller, the co-president of Wellesley College Democrats, is "hard-core
Wellesley." She wears vintage ERA T-shirts, calls incoming students
first-years instead of freshmen. "Everybody who knows me thinks of me as a feminist," Ms. Keller says. "Nobody imagined I wouldn't vote for Clinton."
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