My vote....is personal.... [View All]

[busymom]

I'll admit it.

It goes beyond agreeing with her on the issues....I feel that Obama and Clinton are very close politically. Like the 80% of black people who are showing out in huge numbers for Obama, to rally behind him because he is african-american, I am casting my vote for Hillary Clinton.

I like Hillary Clinton because she is a woman....like me.

Go ahead and bash me....but...

I gave up my own professional aspirations when I got married. My husband was finishing medical school and starting residency and the demands on his time were unbelievable. For 7 years of our married life, he worked 100 hours/week for about $5/hour. It was terrible, and there was no way that we could have made it work if I had wanted to press forward.

I did some things...I finished up a grad degree...and have worked some odd jobs professionally in that field...but I can honestly say that if my husband had not been on a high-powered career path, my life would be substantially different.
Despite having a graduate degree in a hard science, I find myself often belittled by people who don't know that. When we met with our banker about getting a mortgage on our home and my dh mentioned that I had a grad degree, he smirked and said "oooh, are you a social worker". (NOT that there is anything wrong with being a social worker....the assumption botherd me that every woman who has a professional degree must be a nurse or a social worker.)

In my department, I was often talked across or down to simply due to my femaleness....the sexism was palpable...the implications that I got my job beause my dh is a physician in the community are also there.

It's ridiculous.

I feel like it is time to break through the glass ceiling.

I am really bummed out that the polling looks like Clinton might not do so well....like I said...it's also personal here for me.