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The former first ladies, Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama, condemn a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) urging President-elect Joe Biden’s wife to stop posing as “Dr. Jill Biden,” reported AFP.
Essayist Joseph Epstein says in this editorial, published in Saturday’s edition of the Wall Street Journal, an article denounced as “sexist” by other Democratic figures, that there is no reason to put his doctorate before his name. unless you’re a doctor.
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Jill Biden has a doctorate in education.
“In the social sciences, calling yourself a doctor is considered mean,” insists Joseph Epstein, who assures that Jill Biden’s Ph.D. “sounds fake” and “a little funny.”
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The opinion immediately provoked a wave of criticism.
“Her name is Dr. Jill Biden, ignore her,” Hillary Clinton, former secretary of state and presidential candidate, wrote on Twitter.
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Michelle Obama sees in Joseph Epstein’s text an illustration of the unfavorable treatment to which women who have succeeded professionally are subjected.
“Too often, our successes cause skepticism, even ridiculous,” Michelle Obama, a highly acclaimed former first lady in America, wrote on Instagram.
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The editorial caused such a scandal that Paul Gigot, in charge of the “Opinion” pages at WSJ, had to defend his editorial choice. It considers that the question raised by Joseph Epstein deserves to be raised and that the newspaper reserves the title of “Dr.” doctors.
Paul Gigot denounces a “political campaign” by the “Biden team”.
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Jill Biden received her doctorate from the University of Delaware in 2007, when she was 50 years old, a period in which, according to Joseph Epstein, the prestige of doctorates was “diminished by the erosion of seriousness and the relaxation of criteria in university education “.
“Dr. Biden obtained his diplomas with a lot of work and thanks to his absolute determination (…). This article was never written about a man”, criticizes the future “Second Knight” Doug Emhoff, husband of Kamala Harris.
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Many netizens regret that Joseph Epstein addresses Jill Biden with a formula considered paternalistic: “Madame First Lady, Ms. Biden, Jill, my little one.”
The university where Joseph Epstein studied, Northwestern, in turn called the editorial “misogynistic.”
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“The appointment as a physician of anyone who has earned a doctorate … is well deserved,” Northwestern said.
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