What's in a Name? For Kamala Harris, a Lot.

glamour.com:

, but she also has a shot at defying science.The last few days have been a whirlwind for the Harris campaign—a campaign that technically only launched on Sunday and has already amassed more than in donations and secured the all-important endorsement of , which catapulted her into the pop-culture stratosphere.

However, alongside that endorsement——Harris switched over her campaign X (formally Twitter) account to the handle "KamalaHQ." According to research, it's a move that could make or break her campaign."I kept seeing men referred to by just their last name, and equally famous, well-known, eminent women, not identified the same way," , an assistant professor studying behavioral science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Glamour about what inspired her research, "," published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "I saw it in academia.

We would have lab meetings and casually talk about women and men differently. And watching panel shows on TV and politics, I'd notice the same thing."Think about it this way: You call her Jane Austin.

You call him Dickens. You call her Hillary. You call him Clinton. You call him Trump and her Kamala.That "same thing" was that women, even those running for the highest office in the United States, are more often referred to by their first name alone, while men are more often referred to by their last.