Iowa women meet Warren and wonder anew about the glass ceiling

By Jess Bidgood GLOBE STAFF JANUARY 06, 2019

SIOUX CITY, Iowa — Elizabeth Warren introduced herself to Iowa voters this weekend as an Oklahoma-born economic populist willing to take on billionaires and big banks. She also wanted voters to know she’s already broken through one glass ceiling and has her eye on another.

“People told me back in 2012 that Massachusetts would not elect a woman to the United States Senate. We got organized, we fought back,” Warren said in the lobby of a theater here.

Warren is leaning in on the gender issue. She joked on Instagram that women are more “likable” in Amtrak’s quiet car, where loud talking is not allowed. She evokes Senator Mitch McConnell’s attempted putdown, “nevertheless, she persisted,” at the end of her stump speeches, and has scheduled a “conversation with women leaders” Sunday in a Des Moines suburb.

For many female Democrats here, it is thrilling to see another woman candidate take the stump after the disappointment they felt when Hillary Clinton lost the presidential election to Donald Trump in 2016. But some of the voters who have eagerly greeted Warren said they still feel a sense of anxiety and frustration about the double standards they believe women politicians face, despite the gains of the #MeToo movement and the remarkable events of the past few years.

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