Dear Hillary: Don't soften your image

For the sake of gender equality, you do you

Hillary Clinton holds up a baby during her 2014 book tour.
(Image credit: (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images))

Hillary Clinton is running for president, and I am all in.

I will readily admit this, too: My allegiance has little to do with Clinton's political abilities or policy preferences, and has almost everything to do with the fact that she is a driven, hard-working, enormously successful woman who stands a very good chance of becoming our first female president. It really is long past time for someone to shatter the "highest, hardest glass ceiling" in America.

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Lauren Hansen

Lauren Hansen produces The Week’s podcasts and videos and edits the photo blog, Captured. She also manages the production of the magazine's iPad app. A graduate of Kenyon College and Northwestern University, she previously worked at the BBC and Frontline. She knows a thing or two about pretty pictures and cute puppies, both of which she tweets about @mylaurenhansen.