CQ Politics | Political Gender Bias Remains Alive and Well

By Cara | March 3, 2009

When she was running for president, Hillary Rodham Clinton would recount the story of how a 90-year-old female supporter once shook her hand at a rally. The woman explained that she had been born before all women won the right to vote in 1920, and now she could shake the hand of a woman who would become president. Clinton would juxtapose that moment with the placards that school-age girls brandished at her rallies, proclaiming that they, too, could grow up one day to be president.

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