The Hillary Effect Resurfaces

The Nobel Committee made history last week by naming three women as this year's winners of the Peace Prize.  Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first female president in Africa, Leymah Gbowee, also of Liberia,  and Tawakul Karman of Yemen were all congratulated last week by our esteemed Secretary of State who very early in her tenure made women and girls her signature issue and never delivers a major speech without mentioning that societies that ignore and subjugate half the population cannot succeed and prosper.
In a guest column at The Moderate Voice, Taylor Marsh credits Hillary Clinton's high profile campaign to put women and girls on fair footing internationally as having  an effect upon thinking world wide.

The Hillary Effect: Nobel Peace Prize for 2011 Goes to Three Activist Women

Posted by TAYLOR MARSH, Guest Voice Columnist in At TMV, Featured Articles.
Oct 8th, 2011

...it was Hillary Rodham Clinton who has tirelessly trumpeted to the world to wake up to what women’s contributions to their countries mean to the world and anyone wanting stability to rein in still developing, often troubled, regions.
As the Washington Post reported in January, 2010, the Hillary Effect was already in full swing around the world, because of Hillary’s presence, her footprint.

“Hillary Clintonz is so visible” as secretary of state, said Amelia Matos Sumbana, who just arrived as ambassador from Mozambique. “She makes it easier for presidents to pick a woman for Washington.”

No one in the Obama administration has worked harder in the last few years to put women’s rights in the forefront of changing countries more than Secy. Clinton. No one has so relentlessly made the case that women can close the gap in stabilizing a troubled country, including setting a burgeoning economy on firmer ground.
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Here on these page, I am always trying to put Hillary out in front, to publicize her work,  and to help amplify her voice.  I seems, though, that a great deal of what she accomplishes happens behind the scenes or as an effect of work she has done.  The Hillary Effect.  The lovely lady herself does not appear to mind not getting credit for her impact.  Nevertheless, I will continue to tell that story.   This is one of my favorite pictures of her.  It was my wallpaper for a long time.  It says a mouthful.