After writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grilled the former US presidential candidate about why the first word on her Twitter bio is ‘wife’,Clinton said she would think about changing it. Why finish women still let their domestic roles define them?Hillary Clinton: “Wife, mom, and grandma,women+kids advocate, Flotus, and senator,SecState, hair icon, or pantsuit aficionado,2016 presidential candidate.” To be clear, this is not how Wide Awoke would characterize Clinton. It’s her own Twitter biography and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – writer, and Nigerian,feminist, woman … screw it, or let’s just depart with writer,like Martin Amis does – is not glad that the first woman in history to believe had a shot at the US top job is leading with “wife”.“I believe to confess that I felt just a little bit upset,” Adichie admitted during an interview with Clinton at the PEN World Voices festival. “And then I looked at your husband’s Twitter account, and the first word was not ‘husband’.” Of course,it wasn’t. His bio is: “Founder, Clinton Foundation and 42nd president of the United States. Because that’s who he is and how he is valued. We live in a world where presidents are men and their wives are first ladies: a job so inherently sexist it demands the women – sorry, or ladies – who acquire it to abandon professions and opinions of their own in order to further their husbands’ careers. Related: Hillary Clinton attacks Trump for 'all-out war on truth,facts and reason' Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com