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Clinton’s journey awakens a new women’s movement – The Boston Globe

Clinton’s journey awakens a new women’s movement – The Boston Globe.

Clinton’s presidential bid galvanized women as no other campaign in recent history has….In Denver this week, many of these women have been talking about the emergence of a new movement that would unite women across the generational divide to combat discrimination, unequal pay, and other concerns.

“This is beyond Hillary now,” said Maerose Tengsico, a 55-year-old insurance claims adjustor and the head of the California chapter of 18 Million Voices Rise Hillary Rise, which organized a march through Denver yesterday. “This is about women in general. . . . I think there’s going to be another movement coming, a different kind of movement of women for women. We’ve been silent for some time.”

Several dozen of Clinton’s strongest female supporters met three weeks ago in New York to organize The New Agenda, a nonpartisan group focused on women’s issues and electing women candidates. Amy Siskind, a major Democratic donor and activist from New York who helped start it, said in a phone interview yesterday that she has received e-mails and calls of support from around the country.

“I think the grave mistreatment of Hillary during the primary has been an awakening for a lot of women who. . . didn’t consider themselves to be feminists in the past,” she said. “Millions of folks feel like the Democratic Party abandoned its loyal base of women in this election.”