On this week’s episode of the Waves, Christina, June, Marcia, and Nichole discuss how we got to such a white, male set of options for President. Then, they dive into the gendered responses to coronavirus. Finally, the panel discusses a new movie about abortion: Never Rarely Sometimes Always. 

In Slate Plus: Is It Sexist that Tulsi Gabbard has been treated like a joke and left out of mainstream assessments of the race?

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Other items discussed on the show: 

Coronavirus: Five ways virus upheaval is hitting women in Asia by Lara Owen in the BBC

69 Percent of Men Don’t Wash Their Hands After Using the Bathroom?! by Amanda in The Cut

Recommendations: 

June: A Taste Of Honey (1961) 

Nichole: So We Can Glow by Leesa Cross-Smith 

Marcia: Freethinker, Sex Suffrage, an the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener by Kimberly A. Hamlin 

Christina: The city of La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico 

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