Sarah Harte: Men need to partner with women to create political gender equality

One of the main challenges of our era is to make men realise that sexism isn’t just a women’s issue

Taylor Swift’s past political activity suggests she might endorse Kamala Harris; in 2020 she endorsed Biden. One poll suggests that Swifties agree that an endorsement by the singer would boost a candidate’s campaign. Picture: Yui Mok/PA

I had a dream, and it was that America had a female president. This is not an anti-Trump vision. It’s a shifting-the-needle vision. 

What our twenty-third chromosome says about us shouldn’t be part of the story, but we are still at the point where a female leader is a unique event that requires hoopla.