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Hillary Clinton Joins Fight for  Marriage Equality – Puts It in Context of Human Rights

“LGBT Americans are our colleagues, our teachers, our soldiers, our friends, our loved ones – and they are full and equal citizens and deserve the rights of citizenship. That includes marriage. That’s why I support marriage for lesbian and gay couples. I support it personally and as a matter of policy and law – embedded in a broader effort to advance equality and opportunity for LGBT Americans and all Americans…..

For those of us who lived through the long years of the civil rights and women’s rights movements, the speed with which more and more people have come to embrace the dignity and equality of LGBT Americans has been breathtaking and inspiring. We see it all around us everyday in major cultural statements and in quiet family moments. But the journey is far from over and therefore we must keep working to make our country freer and fairer and to continue to inspire the faith the world puts in our leadership. In doing so, we will keep moving closer and closer to that more perfect union promised to us all.”

 

Hillary Clinton launches new website, which pretty much leaves us still guessing about her next

move, since, so far, it only contains her photo and contact info.  ( Although the url itself could be a double entendre : does hilllaryclintonoffice.com mean that’s where she and her tribe, dubbed “Hillaryland” do their business? Or does it mean she will, in her own good time, seek office?) Stay Tuned……we will update you as the mystery unfolds!

 

 

What Hillary Clinton Did For Women

Career and business women everywhere might want to give some thought to what Hillary Clinton’s long term impact has been on the role of women in the workplace. Karen Kamp, in What Hillary Clinton Did for Women ( and Men) Everywhere  points out ” as secretary of state she changed the narrative on women by championing their social, political and economic rights over the world…” and particularly the critical nature of their role in the world’s economy.

“It’s the Economy … Stupid

In her 2011 speech for the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation’s Women and the Economy Summit, Clinton made the global business case for women calling them a “vital source of growth that can power our economies in the decades to come.”

“When it comes to the enormous challenge of our time — to systematically and relentlessly pursue more economic opportunity in our lands — we don’t have a person to waste and we certainly don’t have a gender to waste,” Clinton said.

She went on to urge policymakers to take concrete steps to “successfully eliminate barriers and bring women into all our economic sectors.” Clinton seemed to be adding to her infamous “women’s rights are human rights” argument, this time, attempting to educate the world that empowering women economically will benefit everyone, including men.”

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