Gender Issue Lives On as Clinton’s Hopes Dim


	Gender Issue Lives On as Clinton’s Hopes Dim

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5-19-2008 7:09 AM

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is now in what most agree are the waning days of her bid for the Democratic 
presidential nomination. To use her own phrase, she has been running “to break 
the highest and hardest glass ceiling” in American life</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/19/us/politics/19women.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1211195005-wYLg2zAOk6HpILVK/QTjig">Clinton’s all-but-certain defeat brings with it a reckoning about what her run 
represents for women: a historic if incomplete triumph or a depressing reminder 
of why few pursue high office in the first place. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/19/us/politics/19women.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1211195005-wYLg2zAOk6HpILVK/QTjig">Clinton was always an imperfect test case for female achievement. “Somebody’s 
wife,” as Elaine Kamarck, a professor of government at <A 
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and a Clinton supporter, described her.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/19/us/politics/19women.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1211195005-wYLg2zAOk6HpILVK/QTjig"><P>Still, many credit Mrs. Clinton with laying down a new marker for what a woman can accomplish in a campaign — raising over $170 million, frequently winning more favorable reviews on debate performances than her male rivals, rallying older women, and persuading white male voters who were never expected to support her.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D1091034-C868-4C1D-9D88-2D0AF4AAB7E5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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