Gillibrand’s focus on “women’s issues”

[Mr. Morden]

I hesitate to even use the term, but not sure there’s a better phrase for it than “women’s issues”.  To quote this story from August:

http://www.timesunion.com/womenatwork/article/U-S-Sen-Kirsten-Gillbrand-Speaking-out-about-9177785.php

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This cluster of issues has been a major focus of Gillibrand in the Senate, and it’s continuing into 2017:

http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/01/gillibrand-introduces-measure-to-protect-womens-healthcare.html

Add to that the fact that she’s been vocal about encouraging women to run for public office, and she has a leadership PAC (“Off the Sidelines) that donates exclusively to female candidates:

https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgot.php?cycle=2016&cmte=C00525600

And, as I just posted in the Tea Leaves thread, she’s announced that she’s going to join the Women’s March on Washington on Jan. 21st.

So I’m wondering, is she going to try to leverage this for her likely 2020 presidential primary campaign, and how is it going to work out?  I’m assuming there’ll be at least one other female candidate running for the Democratic nomination (probably more), so is her strategy going to be to out-identity politics them, or will she go in the other direction, and work hard to broaden her issue set to appeal more to men as well?