#Womancard takes aim at Donald Trump's controversial comments
On Tuesday evening, after winning all five primaries at stake, Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump took a celebratory swipe at Hillary Clinton's credentials.
“Frankly, if Hillary Clinton were a man, I don't think she'd get 5% of the vote. The only thing she's got going is the woman's card,” Trump said during a news conference.
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His audience barely applauded the controversial comment, which became a top-10 trending hashtag in the U.S. on Wednesday.
Twitter users, many of whom identified as Clinton supporters, began pointing out that the so-called #womancard actually isn't worth much because of historic and persistent gender inequality.
Citing issues like the pay gap, reproductive rights, suffrage and sexual harassment, people demonstrated how American womanhood is not typically associated with professional advantage or personal gain.
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While Trump may further endear himself to hard-core supporters by turning the "woman's card" into an undermining joke, that type of criticism raises new questions about whether he can successfully reach female voters.
According to a March 2016 NBC/WSJ poll, 47% of Republican female primary voters said they could not imagine themselves voting for Trump, a notably higher rate than the 40% of male GOP primary voters who said the same.
Clinton responded to Trump with a variation on her favorite retort to this claim: "If fighting for women's health care and paid family leave and equal play is playing the 'woman card', then deal me in!"
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On Wednesday afternoon, her Twitter account revived the controversy with a series of messages about Trump's position on equal pay and paid family leave.
"Women still face too many barriers—a president shouldn't be part of the problem," said one tweet. "Comments like Trump's set us back."
Additional reporting by Megan Specia.
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