Chelsea Handler, Ashley Judd, Chelsea Clinton Talk Cultural Change for Women at the Inaugural Bloomberg Business of Equality Summit

By: Kali Hays, WWD
May 10, 2018 12:30 PM ET
Chelsea Handler, Ashley Judd and Nina Shaw at Bloomberg's Business of Equality event. jean-pierre uys

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Like a lot of women, Chelsea Handler is disheartened that sexism and harassment are still such widespread issues, but she thinks the cultural shift toward doing something about it has a specific source.

"We elected a sexual predator and we all knew about it, and we still did it, but we have to reconcile that with ourselves — 54 percent of white women voted for Donald Trump,” Handler said during the Bloomberg’s first Business of Equality event in New York. “So, this is the morning after, I think. It’s obvious, to me, that this is a referendum.”

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