Most women won’t be able to follow

Most women won’t be able to follow in Hillary Clinton’s footsteps—unless they’re already rich

On Jun. 7, Hillary Clinton became the first woman in US history to become the presumptive nominee for a major political party. “Tonight’s victory is not about one person,” she declared. “It belongs to generations of women and men who struggled and sacrificed and made this moment possible.”

Clinton’s life is a story of female exceptionalism—and exclusion. As a child she wanted to be an astronaut and wrote to NASA for advice. They wrote her back: “We are not accepting girls.” At 18, she attended Wellesley, an all-women’s school, at a time when the Ivy League was restricted to men. At 22, she decided to become a lawyer—at a time when less than 5% of lawyers or judges were women—and was admitted to Yale Law School, where she was one of only 27 women in a class of 235. Hillary entered professional life in the 1970s, an era where women could not legally get a credit card, keep their job if they were pregnant, or report sexual harassment. When her husband Bill Clinton ran for governor, under political pressure, Hillary changed her last name from Rodham to Clinton.

http://qz.com/708266/the-next-hillary-clinton-will-be-more-like-chelsea/

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