After Clinton’s defeat, now more than ever women need to seek and serve in electoral politics for democracy’s sake 

There is, in all this hand-wringing about Hillary Clinton’s re-emergence, a subtext that politics is really for the boys, and girls are only allowed in when they out-perform and ultimately deliver for the (often male-dominated) troops.
Hillary Clinton, pictured Nov. 2, 2016. Now that Ms. Clinton has written a book which documents her extraordinary U.S. presidential run, she is being pilloried by one too many commentators, often male, for daring to speak up, writes Nancy Peckford.

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