At the Pinnacle of Hillary Clinton’s Career
By Rachael Combe |  April 05, 2012

Secretary Clinton’s…. Hillary’s career, management capabilities and esteem in the public keep rising. As this author, Rachel Combe, in Elle Magazine points out:  “These days Hillary Clinton seems to get standing ovations whenever she opens her mouth.” And “her favorability rating is hovering at about 60 percent …while her negatives have dropped to roughly 30 percent, making her …. according to Gallup, the most admired woman in America ….”

As we are all aware, Clinton is a global advocate for women and children. She makes the case that “Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world,” she says. “It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children’s and grandchildren’s fates, are decided.”  She has also come to reflect a lot of complicated feelings, some negative, that many in our country have about women and power.  But over time,  her earnestness and good works seem to have allayed the misgivings of those who felt particularly uncomfortable about women, and Clinton in particular, in power.

Clinton is using her power deftly, winning over world leaders and seeding the State Department with global, life- changing women’s initiatives. She also “started the Women in Public Service Project, a cooperative venture between the Seven Sisters colleges and the State Department to encourage more women to go into public service, with the goal of achieving parity in 2050, accelerating our current pace by about 460 years. The kickoff event was inspiring, with speakers such as Gloria Steinem, Madeleine Albright, International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde, and Atifete Jahjaga, the 37-year-old female president of Kosovo.”

In many ways Clinton is managing to transform our world for the better.  And, along the way, she appears to be transforming herself, or letting her real self emerge and evolve, into one the most likeable and charismatic leaders on the world stage. Who knows where she might go from here?

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