For young, democratic women today, Hillary Clinton's gender is simply not enough to make her worth voting for.

According to a recent Quinnipiac poll, only 40 percent of millennials support Clinton.

During the primaries, young women my age felt that Sanders, a 75 year old white man, understood them better than a candidate of their own gender. According to Politico, in the New Hampshire primary 82 percent of women under the age of 30 supported Sanders.

To millennials it seems, the notion that a women would vote for another women just because of her gender is shallow and sexist.

In fact, Sanders supporters came up with a name for voters who support Hillary because of her gender: "vagina voters."

Young women voters not only have trouble voting for Clinton because she is a woman, but also because she is not the right kind of woman. Because Hillary is white, well-off, and straight, they say she doesn't feel like their candidate. They say instead that Hillary is out of touch, and untrustworthy. Millennials want to wait for a different woman candidate to come along.

The fact that millennial voters are resisting to outwardly support Hillary demonstrates the ironic trend in the current, post-feminist movement: modern feminists operate by downplaying outwardly female behaviors.

So, somewhere along the way in the fight for woman's rights, women forgot the importance of identifying as a woman. Instead, acknowledging gender difference and the uniqueness of women is seen as toxic, and even mocked.

By highlighting this trend, we can understand why Hillary cannot use girl-powered mantras and inspirations to win over young woman voters.

The question then becomes, is this new wave of feminism, in which women ignore their womanhood, actually anti-feminist?

To begin to unpack this question we need to understand why a gender neutralizing strand has been incorporated into modern feminism in the first place.

Part of the reason is because millennials believe the work of their mothers, and their mother's mothers has come to fruition. Girls today feel like the feminist fight is overplayed and unnecessary.

There is some truth to this. Today, more women graduate from college than men. According to Pew as of 2013, thirty-seven percent of women ages 25-29 had at least a bachelor's degree, compared with 30 percent of men the same age. Further, Pew also reported that in 2012 that women earned 60 percent of all master's degrees and 51 percent of all doctorates.

Because in some respects gender equality has been reached, young women find it redundant to single out their own gender.

But, this feeling that the feminist fight is redundant comes from a fabricated version of reality.

Women earn 78 cents for every dollar a man makes.

Rutgers University reports that only 19.4 percent of the seats in Congress are held by women. The Inter-Parliamentary Union found that this percentage places the United States at 97th in the world, behind countries like Mexico and Uganda.

1 in 5 women will experience sexual assault in their lifetime.

85% of domestic violence victims are women.

The 2013 Gender Gap report found that the United States is 1 of only 3 countries that does not have mandated paid maternity leave. In contrast, Pakistan has 12 weeks of mandated paid maternity leave.

So, for the baby boomer generation, who carry the perspective of how far women have come and how far women still have to go, the time for a woman president is now. They see Clinton as a pioneer who has worked tirelessly for years to break the highest glass ceiling.

Young women my age who subscribe to the anti-feminist strands of modern feminism unknowingly barricade rather than bolster Mrs. Clinton's efforts to surpass the most important glass ceiling if the reason Hillary cannot appeal to them is because she tries to appeal to them as a woman.

Millennial women have become so used to suppressing their own womanhood, so numb to identifying gender differences, that they are missing their opportunity to be a part of the momentous prospect of putting the first woman in the white house.

Young women who fail to use their gender as common ground also fail to realize that gender equality should not mean disconnecting from you own gender.

What modern feminists have forgotten is that the fight for gender equality should not mean diminishing the uniqueness of women. This is not moving forward. This is simply playing into the age-old dynamics of sexism, in which men create the standard and ideal, and women need to downplay their own womanhood in order to be respected and thought of as equal.

Voting for Hillary because she is a woman therefore does not show stagnation or backwardness, it shows progress. It highlights your belief that Hillary as a woman, not just as a presidential candidate, has the ability to succeed in the highest office in our country.

So vote for Hillary not just because she is running, but because she runs like a girl.