Why are you yelling? The questions female candidates still face [View all]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/05/hillary-clinton-female-candidates-political-landscape-democrat-president/85343998/

Hillary Clinton is poised to break historic ground Tuesday, but the latest research shows that she and other women still traverse a more difficult political landscape than men when they run for office — and that those differences exacerbate some of the most serious challenges she faces about honesty and likability.

While more than 100 men have been nominated for president by the nation's dominant political parties over the past 220 years, when the polls in New Jersey close Tuesday night, Clinton is expected to become the first woman to clinch the nomination of a major party for the nation's highest office.

"It's the ultimate treehouse with a 'no-girls-allowed' sign posted on it, and it would be absolutely wonderful to have her break into the treehouse and take the sign down," former Colorado congresswoman Patricia Schroeder says of the White House. Even so, Schroeder, 75, says the gender-based hurdles and stereotypes she faced in her own bid for the Democratic nomination in 1988 now are "more subtle, but it's more of the same."

For instance, a report this spring by the Barbara Lee Family Foundation found that voters are willing to support a male candidate they don't like if they think he is qualified. But they are less likely to support a female candidate they think is qualified unless they also like her. "For women candidates, likability is linked to electability, and that's not the case for men," says Adrienne Kimmell, executive director of the nonpartisan institute.