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Posted: Sat Aug 2nd, 2008 08:58 pm

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We’ve Come A Long Way, Baby - Or Have We?

As noted in a recently formed Yahoo protest group, Thomas Jefferson said, “The price of democracy is eternal vigilance”.

So, as we look out over the wreckage strewn in the wake of the primary season, one might ask, what did it mean for women? How did it impact us? On the one hand, we did get a viable woman presidential candidate who captured 18 million votes. On the other hand, women, exemplified by Hillary Clinton, surely a serious and capable candidate, were savaged, in a way which might have echoed in our communal memories the witch hunts in early New England or the wholesale subjugation of women in the Middle Ages, when our lands were taken away, we were denied an education and had to flee into a nunnery to be allowed serious intellectual pursuits.

A woman president of the U.S. was not to be, not in this season, despite the women leaders who’ve emerged across the globe. For more, go to

http://www.advancingwomen.com/wordpress/?cat=49

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