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    Self-Doubt and Hillary

    Posted Monday, October 22, 2007 4:11 PM | By Emily Yoffe
    Tying the two previous posts together -- female self-doubt, and Hillary's canny use of Drudge -- I see a lesson here for those who study how non-nurturing environments undermine young women. Tell these girls to just keep swinging. That's what Hillary has done. She didn't wait for there to be an equal number of female presidential candidates before she ran; she may still consider Drudge part of the vast right-wing conspiracy, but she's cleverly using him to her advantage. While we're rooting out sexism, isn't it important to teach girls who feel less welcome in majority-male environments that they need to overcome their discomfort and speak up? Law and medicine were once almost closed to women, now enrollment is these professional schools is near 50-50. Veterinary medicine was once almost exclusively male; today enrollment is about 80 percent female.
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