An opinion writer’s suggestion that the next US First Lady Jill Biden should stop referring to herself as “Dr” has sparked an angry reaction online.
Joseph Epstein called Biden “kiddo” and compared her doctorate in education to honorary degrees given to celebrities.
“‘Dr Jill Biden’ sounds and feels fraudulent, not to say a touch comic,” he wrote in the Wall Street Journal.
But social media users argued that the article reflected sexist attitudes faced by many women in academia.
Biden, who uses her academic title on her Twitter profile, received her doctorate in 2007 from the University of Delaware, focusing on student retention in community colleges in her dissertation.
The Biden clan are creeps.
