#GoodRead | Hopes for a female president dashed, women take running for office into their own hands

"Hopes for a female president dashed, women take running for office into their own hands":

On Wednesday, she woke up inconsolable. On Thursday, angry. But on the Friday after the presidential election, as she prepared posters to join thousands in protesting Donald Trump’s victory, Mia Hernández came to a quiet realization: If she found her country’s direction intolerable, she would have to try to change it.

She would change it not just by signing petitions, or protesting, or calling her legislators. For the first time, she sketched out a plan to run for elected office.

Read Isaac Stanley-Becker's full article at The Washington Post here…