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(146 posts)1. The 1995 fourth world conference on women (the White House was reluctant to have her attend) Hillary the First Lady, spoke about women's rights. She said that Women's Rights Are Human Rights which reframed the conference and emboldened women to return to their home countries and fight.
2. She established the President's Interagency Council on Women in 1995
3. Introduced the phrase "sex trafficking" to the world (it had only been used once by the World Bank) after her conference she and Albright had organized about women in leadership in Austria. Multiple women came to them and said girls were disappearing in villages. Clinton put the weight of the First Lady's office around the topic and what we know of trafficking today has its roots in her work:
https://1997-2001.state.gov/statements/1998/980311.html
4. She had strong influence on the nomination of Ruth Bader Ginsburg for SCOTUS
5. She helped create SCHIP for children: 2007: Sen. Edward M. Kennedy: The childrens health program wouldnt be in existence today if we didnt have Hillary pushing for it from the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue. [The Washington Post, 10/5/07]
6. She fought for Lily Ledbetter as a key person which led to the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act.Ledbetter endorsed Hillary when she ran for president.
https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/pressroom/fact-check-hillary-clinton-has-been-champion-for-women-and-families-for-decades
https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/womens-rights-and-opportunity/
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