Carol brought up a very good point (see previous blog comment) — If Hillary’s campaign made 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling, then why is it still intact?  That thing must be miles deep.

Lois described the many ways in which the Clinton campaign and Clinton herself reminded us how to deal with those who would hold women back.

Yet she didn’t win.  She did all those things right and didn’t win.  As Deborah Tannen has written, so much of what she said, did and wore was “marked” — commented upon, ridiculed, taken as indicators of weakness or inconsistency.

What does this teach us?  Does it really tell our daughters that they can be whatever they want to be?

Many women (not just Democrats) feel that something very unseemly and uncivil has taken place.  Many young women have been inspired by Clinton, but hopefully made more wary as they pursue their careers.  They should be wondering if some of what women before them accomplished at great sacrifice is being undone?

We do indeed walk a thin pink line in any job and we’ve seen that there are a vast number of people who want to keep it that way — not just in the media.  In this sense, we’ve been shaken hard — reawakened to snakes in the grass we considered harmless.

Hillary Clinton showed us how to fight back, those who despised her for her gender showed us that they are very much still around.

TAGS: Feminism, gender and leadership, Hillary Clinton, sexism, the thin pink line