"The panel was another instance in which Clinton, who was circumspect as to the historic nature of her 2008 presidential candidacy as a potential female nominee, talked openly about women’s rights in the lead-up to a second potential candidacy. Issues related to women and children — Clinton’s focus of her work dating back to her days as Arkansas’ first lady — have dominated her post-State Department efforts at the Clinton Foundation.
Midway through the panel, Friedman asked Clinton if there is “still a double standard in the media in how we talk about women in public life?”
“There is a double standard,” Clinton said, adding, “We have all experienced it [or seen it]. “The double standard is alive and well, and I think in many respects the media is the principal propagator of its persistence,” she added. “And I think the media needs to be, you know, more self-consciously aware of that.”
She added that her advice to women who want to, as Friedman put it, “rise up in the world” is that they have the task of making other people, “predominantly” men who they will deal with, relate to them and listen to their ideas. But she added that the “inside piece is equally important,” referring to how they hear criticism.
“Too many young women, I think, are harder on themselves than circumstances warrant,” she said, adding, “They too often take criticism personally instead of seriously … you can’t let it crush you and you have to be resilient enough to keep moving forward despite the personal setbacks.”
“Believe me,” Clinton said, “this is hard-won advice I’m now putting forward here. It’s not like you wake up and understand this. But it’s a process. And you need other women, you need your friends, to support you.”
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/04/hillary-clinton-media-double-standard-on-women-105374.html?hp=l2
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