To the Editor:

Re “Elizabeth Warren, Once a Front-Runner, Drops Out of Presidential Race” (nytimes.com, March 5):

This marks the end of a long run of very impressive female candidates who performed admirably but struggled to raise funding and their profile. By now, it’s hard to even remember how well Kirsten Gillibrand and Kamala Harris did in the debates.

If the Democrats have a moral imperative to give both Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders a full and fair chance to head the ticket, they have an equally compelling duty to nominate a woman as vice president. Given that both Democratic candidates are nearing 80, there is a good chance of that woman having to step into the presidential role.

Ron Charach

Toronto

To the Editor:

Re “Maybe Next Time, Ladies,” by Michelle Cottle (Opinion, March 5):

Women fought hard for the right to vote. And 100 years later, that’s what we do — but mostly, still, for white men. In a year with the most diverse slate of Democratic presidential candidates in U.S. history, the fight has boiled down to Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden.

Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar fans backed down in the final hours to cast their vote for the “electable” candidate. Because while we’ve established that women have the power to vote, we have not established that they have the power to be elected. This was a recurring topic in the debates: Is a woman electable? Our suffragist predecessors would be disheartened to learn that we are still asking that question.