Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who were brought up in a different culture.
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Women candidates have two unique problems. They have trouble raising money and being taken seriously by the media.
Women are tough, but sometimes women present toughness in different ways.
I used to think that the worst form of discrimination for women was being hit on or hearing something disparaging. What's even more challenging for young women is a very senior male who will take an interest in you, who see themselves as father figures or mentors.
The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination. In the past, few women have tried, and even fewer have succeeded.
Women are tough campaigners. They certainly know how to withstand attacks. And I think we make a mistake if we say, as some do, that women should play by different rules, or that they are somehow especially vulnerable to the rules of politics. I don't think that's true.
I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.
Whatever each individual woman is facing - only she knows her biggest challenge.
It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.
Women are hard on themselves.
Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.