…a woman becoming the world’s most powerful human being. In any rational comparison of frustrated talent, women, who are half the world’s population, have suffered far more from disempowerment than Africans, Hispanics, Jews or any other racial group. And while economic advancement and political representation of racial minorities has moved forward in most parts of the world, the gap between men and women has scarcely narrowed, even in America.
Why then have American women failed to rally in sufficient numbers to Mrs Clinton? Many from her own 1960s generation have expressed contempt for her because, ironically, of her husband’s sexual peccadillos. But whenever Mrs Clinton seemed on the verge of defeat, large numbers changed their minds and backed her, as if they suddenly realised that a defeat for Mrs Clinton would end their own feminist dreams.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/anatole_kaletsky/article3492457.ece
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March 7, 2008 at 8:35 am |
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