Hillary Clinton: Media ‘double standard’ on women

Hillary Clinton discussed her work at the State Department, called for young women not to take criticisms personally and rapped the media for treating powerful women with a double standard at the kickoff of “Women in the World” in New York City.

Midway through the panel, New York Times columnist Tom Friedman asked Clinton if there is “still a double standard in the media in how we talk about women in public life?”

“There is a double standard,” Clinton said, adding, “We have all experienced it [or seen it]. The double standard is alive and well, and I think in many respects the media is the principal propagator of its persistence,” she added. “And I think the media needs to be, you know, more self-consciously aware of that.” She added that her advice to women who want to, as Friedman put it, “rise up in the world” is that they have the task of making other people, “predominantly” men who they will deal with, relate to them and listen to their ideas.