Dear Hillary: Success Trumps Sisterhood Every Time

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Conventional wisdom suggests that Hillary Clinton has all but locked up the gender primary. She dominates the female voting bloc, a sign that women are actually energized about her historic candidacy. But there’s one group of women that she hasn’t yet won over: professional and executive women who make more than $75,000 a year. These women support Clinton far less than their lower-income counterparts, and they are slightly more likely to vote for Giuliani in the presidential election, reports the Wall Street Journal today.

Despite having much in common with Clinton, these women are demonstrating that old adage about how feminism’s biggest achievement is allowing women to emulate the worst in men (see the rise in women’s smoking and incarceration rates, for instance). Really, it’s no surprise that when women achieve power and wealth, they start to care more about capital gains taxes than children’s health insurance programs. Apparently, sisterhood is a casualty of climbing the corporate ladder.

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