Young feminists split over Hillary: Does gender matter?

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Hillary Clinton on the trail.

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Young feminists split over Hillary: Does gender matter?

Young women at Hillary Clinton's alma mater, Wellesley, are torn: Do you vote for a woman to shatter the glass ceiling and further the cause? Or do you make an empowered, individual decision that is not confined by gender?

In fact, how women across the country answer that question over the next month could largely determine the winner of the Democratic nomination. In Iowa, women -- particularly young women -- overwhelmingly supported Barack Obama and helped him win the caucuses. Five days later in New Hampshire, Clinton won 45 percent of the female vote compared with 36 for Obama, forging her comeback.

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Ann Althouse/Althouse

An unprecedented eight years of on-the-job training in the White House? Ahem... Gloria? Can you say anything about the feminist issues entailed in a woman running for the presidency on her husband's accomplishments? If not, you're speaking as a Clinton partisan and not as someone who wants to seriously engage with feminism.

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Ann Friedman/Tapped

I don't have a feminist obligation to vote for Hillary Clinton, or donate money to her campaign, or show up at her rallies. My obligation is to support her right to compete on an equal playing field. To decry the disgusting amount of sexism she faces every day. And then to vote for another candidate if I feel he would make a better president. That, too, is a feminist act.