SAME OLD STORY: CLINTON'S CAMPAIGN PROVES THAT THE SCARLET LETTER FOR 21ST CENTURY WOMAN STANDS FOR AMBITION
I'm traveling
through the Little Rock, Arkansas airport hours after meeting in New York with a group of women to talk Hillary and women and ambition. Exiting security, the first thing I see, through the airport bookstore's window, is a large black and white poster of a photograph of Hillary, Bill, and Chelsea walking up onto a podium. The caption reads: "Get Ready to Pary Like
It's 1992".
Don't put on your party shoes just yet. There's
still a hill to climb. And not just over substantive differences between
candidates. Hillary's up against the same old story: it's tough being a working
woman--and her campaign proves it, say female execs. They may or may not back
her, but successful city women say Clinton's travails show what they're up against.
Tory Johnson, CEO, Women For Hire, workplace contribitor on "Good Morning America" and anchor of "Home Work" on ABC News Now called a breakfast meeting to talk about what successful working women are saying about Hillary Clinton. Tory's resulting article was originally published in the New York Post, February 25, 2008 and is reprinted with permission below.
SISTER
ACT: Tory Johnson (center) talking Hillary and careers with (from left to
right) career coach and business psychologist Debra Condren, Working Mother
Media CEO Carol Evans, attorney Sara Newman and Hyperion Books publisher Ellen
Archer.
Guest post by Tory Johnson, CEO, Women For Hire.
LOVE her or hate her, win or lose, successful working women are talking about Hillary Clinton.
But
it's not her politics that have them fired up. What getting under their skin is
a laundry list of gender-nuanced issues brought to the fore by Clinton's run for the ultimate corner office.
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