Romney used the phrase in response to a question about pay equity referring to ring binders with résumés of female job applicants submitted to him as governor of massachusetts. This prompted the phrase s use for political.
It s 2020 and there really is a binder full of women.
Binders full of women comment. The phrase was depicted by romney s detractors and the obama campaign as demeaning and insensitive toward women and was widely mocked. I was delighted to learn about it on last night s lawfare podcast. Republican presidential candidate mitt romney s comment about binders full of women has gone viral on the internet spawning jokes mash ups and musical memes.
Binders full of women. Binders full of women really. About a year ago tammy wittes founded the leadership council for women in national security lcwins.
Presidential debate of 2012. Binders full of women was a phrase used by mitt romney on october 16 2012 during the second u s. The comment immediately went viral birthing a hilarious tumblr parody twitter account romneys binder with more than 13 000 followers and counting and a facebook fan page.
The biggest winner during tuesday night s town hall presidential debate may have been binders full of women in response to a question about what the candidates would do to address gender inequality in the workplace republican presidential candidate mitt romney said that when he was governor and looking to fill his cabinet women s groups brought him whole binders full of women. In typical internet fashion the tumblr binders full of women from whence all these images came popped up shortly after romney s remarkably tone deaf comment about women in the workplace that. Mitt romney was roundly ridiculed after he said he was handed binders full of women during a 2012 presidential election debate former presidential candidate mitt s romney s memorable phrase.
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