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Hillary Clinton

athena

(4,187 posts)

9. The problem is the woman card doesn't get you much.

Reply to sarae (Reply #8)

Fri Jun 10, 2016, 12:00 PM

Jun 2016

It gets you things like 79 cents on the male dollar, missing out on promotions, being seen as a sex object in your 20s and disappearing after you hit 40, and not being listened to by men or women, even when you're the only person in the room who knows anything about the topic being discussed.

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