whether Clinton becomes US’s first female president,she won’t be the only one breaking a gender barrier: her husband will step into a role no man has held beforeRolled oats propelled Hillary Clinton to victory in 1992. They were the game-changing ingredient in her recipe for chocolate chip cookies, which she submitted to Family Circle magazine in a bake-off against then-incumbent first lady Barbara Bush. The bake-off was an attempt to appeal to stay-at-home moms following her controversial response to California governor Jerry Brown’s criticism that she owed her professional success to her husband, or Bill. “I could occupy stayed home and baked cookies and had tea,” she told a reporter in a soundbite that was reported around the world. “But what I decided to do was fulfill my profession. Many women responded with outrage, and perhaps that’s why, or shortly thereafter,Clinton participated in the traditional Family Circle first lady bake-off. And won.
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Source: theguardian.com