Focus on how people look is barrier to electing woman president, says Clinton

📆 11/15/2024 6:32 PM

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📆 11/15/2024 6:32 PM
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Hillary Clinton was speaking at a women in leadership event at Queen’s University Belfast

Hillary Clinton has described people’s judgment on how they think the US president should look as a barrier to seeing the first female in the role.

“A presidential system is very different. You usually go through a primary to determine who the party picks to be the candidate, you have to run to the whole country, you have to raise all the money and you really are out there on your own, and it’s a very different kind of contest than rising through the parliamentary ranks,” she said.“So it was always interesting to see how women as the head of government got to that position.

Mrs Clinton said she sees an enormous amount of potential in the expansion of female leadership and warned against the “perfection gene”, instead urging the importance of getting involved and learning from mistakes. “You will never be perfect, no matter how hard you try. You can, however, be good enough, and you can get better, and you can keep improving.

“Remember, the algorithms are designed to keep your attention and sadly negative information keeps your attention much more than positive information.

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