Strong, Beautiful Working Women, or Sen. Hillary Clinton Holds a Press Conference at Barnard College

by Robyn Schneider | September 15, 2008 at 7:11 pm

Male chauvinists, stop reading now, or forever mourn the loss of the next minute of your life: Senator Hillary Clinton, presidential unhopeful, gave a press conference at Barnard College today addressing a recent US Government Accountability Office report on pay inequity for women in the workplace.  IvyGate was pleasantly surprised that Barnard let us into the press room, where we proceeded to snap a bunch of shots of HRC from close range.  But, before the photo barrage, let us turn to the topic at hand: the fact that, on average, women earn twenty percent less than men for the same work.  The fact that Hillary earned (we're ballparking here) twenty percent less votes than Barack Obama was not mentioned.

Although we had our suspicions about this press conference (suspicions involving the barely-departed coattails of one Barack Obama, see Liveblog 9/11/08), Hillary was eloquent, thought-provoking, and (we can't believe we're typing this) funny.

Some highlights, after the jump:

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