Hillary Clinton to take women's issues out of silo

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Hillary Clinton plans to launch a new initiative this weekend as she seeks to weave women’s issues into every facet of her campaign instead of using them in a separate silo as she did in her unsuccessful 2008 presidential bid.
On Saturday, the Democratic front-runner will launch "Women for Hillary’’ with a two-week effort to enlist the support of female voters that will include house parties, organizing events and trips by the candidate and her surrogates to early voting states, campaign officials told USA TODAY reports.
Continue...Clinton is also hoping to shift attention away from a crush of stories about her use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of State and toward policies she thinks will energize the demographic most critical to her White House bid. Women make up a higher percentage of the electorate, at 53%, than men do.

The rollout coincides with the 20th anniversary of the former first lady’s 1995 speech to the United Nations World Conference on Women in Beijing, in which she proclaimed “women’s rights are human rights.’’

Just as that address "pushed the envelope’’ to elevate women’s issues globally, her 2016 campaign is "being more intentionally overt about these issues," said Lissa Muscatine, Clinton’s chief speechwriter at the time. "That is pushing the envelope at least in the context of a political campaign,’’ she said. "Her whole point is, we can’t marginalize anybody and expect us all to get ahead.’’

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