In an interview with Refinery29, Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein addressed what has become a regular theme in her recent interviews: the fact that there are female candidates for the Democratic, Green, and Republican nominations in 2016.
Stein told the website, “We need a diverse set of candidates that looks like the American public, so we need half women. And whether it’s exactly half or not, it doesn’t matter, but women’s voices need to be represented and there are a diversity of women’s voices. We need to have African American women and Latino women and Caucasian women and women across the spectrum and working women, as well as middle class and wealthier women. You know we deserve the same diversity that others do.
“And by the same token, we also need candidates who are standing up for the issues that matter to women. And I think we shouldn’t be satisfied with simply checking off one box with simply superficial lookalikes in the way that Barack Obama did not represent our stand up for the needs for African Americans, who went from having 10 cents on the dollar of wealth.”