The Trump tape has transformed the 2016 election into a referendum on gender

In less than a week, the release of a 2005 tape of Donald Trump making controversial comments about women has led to a number of Republicans withdrawing their support for the presidential nominee. But, writes Nichole Bauer, the release of the tape has wider implications than the nose-diving of Trump’s campaign. She argues that the views that Trump expressed about women have more definitively placed substantive women’s issues at the top of the agenda in this presidential election.