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The more women and girls self-objectify, the more likely they are to be depressed, to have eating disorders; they have lower confidence, they have lower ambition, they have lower cognitive functioning, they have lower GPAs.

How does this connect to women in leadership? Women who are high self-objectifiers have lower political efficacy. Political efficacy is the idea that your voice matters in politics and that you can bring about change in politics. So if we have a whole generation of young people being raised where women’s objectification is just par for the course - it’s normal, it’s okay - we have a whole generation of women who are less likely to run for office and less likely to vote.

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