For female candidates, harassment and threats come every day
New York Times: Four days before the 2016 congressional primary in her Northern California district, Erin Schrode woke up to tens of thousands of messages. They were everywhere: in her email, on her cellphone, on her Facebook and her Twitter and her Instagram.
Messages ranged from derogatory to violent, and even after Schrode lost her primary, the abuse continued. This is the reality for female candidates in the U.S., according to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University, and it only gets worse if the woman is a member of a minority group.