Firstly, on Walmart, she was a young lawyer and the only woman on a board of 15 men. She broke another glass ceiling. Clinton used her position to champion personal causes, like the need for more women in management and a comprehensive environmental program, as many of us say, she has been fighting for women her whole life. And you challenge her support and advocacy world wide for women and girls? Sec. Clinton launched multiple public and private sector initiatives to raise the status of girls and promote girls’ education around the world. Sec. Clinton started the TechGirls classroom exchange program to increase the number of girls entering the tech field. Under Sec. Clinton, the State Department partnered with the NGO Room to Read to support girls from South Asia who were at risk of dropping out of school. Sec. Clinton introduced the Empowering Adolescent Girls to Lead through Education (EAGLE) initiative, emphasizing leadership training and reducing barriers for girls to attend secondary school. Sec. Clinton launched the Secretary’s International Fund for Women and Girls to invest in improvements to education, health, and economic opportunities. Sec. Clinton’s State Department sponsored teacher exchange programs focused on education for girls. Sec. Clinton initiated a study with UNESCO on “education for women and girls around the world.” Sec. Clinton launched a partnership with the Abbott Fund “to invest one million dollars in the health and education” of women and girls. The MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program committed $39 million to support secondary education to disadvantaged girls in Ghana and Uganda. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation committed $10 million to improve participation in education for marginalized girls. A collaborative effort by “the MacArthur Foundation, The MasterCard Foundation, the Douglas B. Marshall Jr. Family Foundation and two anonymous donors” awarded $6 million to support secondary education initiatives.
Here is an article that talks about some of her accomplishments.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/ ... ent-213157
Kennedy said of the SCHIP program "The children’s health program wouldn’t be in existence today if we didn’t have Hillary pushing for it from the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue."
Some more things:
+the cease fire she brokered between Hamas and Israel,
+the increase that she authored to the FMLA that was rolled into the defense reauthorization of 2008.
+the coverage she got with her old enemy Lindsay Graham for National Guard reservists and retirees
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/9063246/ns/po ... sDt4XldHIU
+she was on the advisory committee to President Obama that led to the killing of Osama Bin Laden.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/28/us/politics/how-hillary-clinton-went-undercover-to-examine-race-in-education.html?_r=1
When she was 24, the children's defense fund sent her undercover to investigate segregation in Alabama schools.
◾Helped found Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, a group dedicated to the betterment of children’s lives by advocating for their health, well-being, and education.
◾Attorney at the Children’s Defense Fund leveling the playing field for children
◾Director of Legal Aid Clinic at the University of Arkansas School of Law
◾Created Arkansas’s Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youth because she saw a need for educating young children. Bringing HIPPY to Arkansas enabled parents to be their child’s first teacher and prepare them for a life of learning.
◾Declared to the United Nations that “women’s rights are human rights” which at the time she said it, was a very big deal
◾Commissioner on the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
◾With Chuck Schumer, secured $21 billion in funding for the World Trade Center site’s redevelopment
◾“Played a leading role in creation of the Adoption and Safe Families Act and the Foster Care Independence Act”
◾Successfully sought to increase research funding for prostate cancer and childhood asthma at the National Institutes of Health
◾Helped investigate the affects of Gulf War Syndrome of the Veterans afflicted
◾Created the Office on Violence Against Women at the Department of Justice
◾Initiated and helped guide the Adoption and Safe Families Act helping in children in foster care move faster in to permanent homes
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