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Those issues rather than gender will determine whether the US senator from New York and wife of former president Bill Clinton stands or falls, according to Naomi Wolf, author of the 1991 bestseller The Beauty Myth and other books."None of the polling or the focus groups indicate that people are ... (snubbing) her because she is a woman but because of a deficit in how she is projecting leadership," Wolf said."If anything, she is too entrenched, too competent a leader.She ... has been on the world stage and people (voters) are sick of people who are ... on the world stage," she said.
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Even if US feminists can chew on many issues such as workplace constraints and lack of widely available cheap child care, few female voters view Clinton as a "standard bearer" for their cause because women span the spectrum of opinion and leaders already seek out their votes by responding to some of their concerns, Wolf said.
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Those issues rather than gender will determine whether the US senator from New York and wife of former president Bill Clinton stands or falls, according to Naomi Wolf, author of the 1991 bestseller The Beauty Myth and other books."None of the polling or the focus groups indicate that people are ... (snubbing) her because she is a woman but because of a deficit in how she is projecting leadership," Wolf said."If anything, she is too entrenched, too competent a leader.She ... has been on the world stage and people (voters) are sick of people who are ... on the world stage," she said.
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Even if US feminists can chew on many issues such as workplace constraints and lack of widely available cheap child care, few female voters view Clinton as a "standard bearer" for their cause because women span the spectrum of opinion and leaders already seek out their votes by responding to some of their concerns, Wolf said.