Tag: Women’s Rights

Why is it so Hard for so Many in America to Accept a Woman President?

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The Women Who’ve Had Enough

 

Candice Norwood, The Atlantic –

Last Tuesday, Green shared her personal story to a crowd for just the second time in a week outside the new Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. She and hundreds of young women and allies assembled last week to protest in more than a dozen U.S. cities. Their objective: to condemn Trump’s rhetoric and demand that Republican leaders unendorse him.

 

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Why a 1995 Speech Proved Formative for Clinton

Jocelyn Novack, Associated Press – August 20, 2016

Flying across the Pacific on an Air Force jet bound for Beijing, first lady Hillary Clinton huddled deep into the night with a few aides and advisers, honing her speech for the U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women. It was 1995, and it had been a bruising first few years in the White House: Troopergate, Travelgate, Whitewater. Not to mention the failure of her own high-profile efforts – unprecedented for a first lady – to reform the nation’s health care system.

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