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Ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a potential Democratic candidate in the 2016 presidential race, said that the media has a double standard for reporting on women when asked if one existed during a joint interview April 3 with Christine Lagarde, the first woman to run the International Monetary Fund. Close

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Ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a potential Democratic candidate in the 2016 presidential race, said that the media has a double standard for reporting on women when asked if one existed during a joint interview April 3 with Christine Lagarde, the first woman to run the International Monetary Fund.

Former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi joined ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in saying that influential women face a double standard in coverage by the media.

I never expected anything but a double standard, Pelosi, a California Democrat, said in an interview with CNNs Candy Crowley airing today.

As one who has been the speaker of the House, Ive had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that has been thrown at me, Pelosi, 74, said in an excerpt released by CNN yesterday.

Clinton, a potential Democratic candidate in the 2016 presidential race, said that the media has a double standard for reporting on women when asked if one existed during a joint interview April 3 with Christine Lagarde, the first woman to run the International Monetary Fund.

We have all either experienced it or at the very least seen the double standard in media coverage, Clinton said at the Women in the World Summit in Manhattan, during which she and Lagarde discussed barriers to gaining equal access to education, health care and economic opportunity.

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Though Hillary Clinton demurred Thursday about any chance she'll run for president in 2016, she seemed every bit the candidate during an evening appearance.

The former secretary of state participated in a question and answer session with International Monetary Fund chair Christine Lagarde at the Women in the World forum in New York, and an enthusiastic audience seemed to see the pair as future world leaders.

Moderator and New York Times columnist Tom Friedman prodded the two women about whether they might run for larger roles -- Clinton for U.S. president and Lagarde for European Commission head.

"Madame Secretary is there any other job you'd be interested in?" Friedman asked Clinton, who smiled but did not take the bait.

"Not right now," she responded.

But she and Lagarde did provide the largely female audience with a memorable image, when the two clasped hands in a high-five celebrating women's political power.

During the discussion on a stage at Lincoln Center, Clinton advised women in the audience to focus on education and confidently pursue their career ambitions. She lamented what she called a double standard for women in the workplace, and criticized the media as being the biggest propagator of that imbalance.

Clinton also weighed in on topics ranging from Russian power to Iran negotiations. She said she had devoted an entire chapter to Iran in her upcoming book on her State Department tenure, adding that the increased sanctions on Iran during that time made Iranian leaders open to the preliminary nuclear deal signed late last year.

When asked about the political atmosphere in Washington, Clinton suggested things needed to change.

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discussed her diplomatic record on Thursday night, saying her time atop the State Department played a role in "restor[ing] America's leadership in the best sense."

Some Republican critics have charged that Clinton's tenure as the nation's top diplomat was heavy on jet-setting but thin on tangible accomplishments, but Clinton said that much of her work -- with Russia, with Iran, and elsewhere -- laid the groundwork for efforts that have now kicked into high gear.

In her forthcoming memoir, Clinton said, she devotes an entire chapter to the negotiations on Iranian sanctions that many have since credited with bringing the Islamic Republic to the negotiating table over its nuclear program.

"I write obviously a whole chapter about this, because this is the kind of...painstaking, microscopic advantages and putting together the international coalition" that eventually yields results," Clinton said, according to Politico.

That effort "changed the calculus inside the Iranian government," she said. "It took an enormous amount of effort on the part of a lot of us."

Clinton's remarks came during a panel discussion kicking off the "Women in the World" summit in New York City. Earlier on Thursday, she helped launch a new program from the U.S. Agency for International Development that hopes to harness new developments in science and technology to combat poverty.

More generally, Clinton said, she and the rest of the administration played a role in restoring American leadership in the world after two controversial wars and a global financial crisis.

I'm "very proud of the stabilization and the really solid leadership that the administration" in 2009 when she and President Obama took the reins, she explained, saying that leadership helped the U.S. "deal with problems like Ukraine" and other recent international crises.

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NEW YORK, April 4 (UPI) -- Hillary Clinton and Christine Lagarde of the International Monetary Fund exchanged a high-five during an appearance in New York at the suggestion both could be presidents.

The two women were in a discussion Thursday night moderated by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman as part of the "Women in the World" event. Friedman said Clinton could become U.S. president, while Lagarde, a former French cabinet minister and now the IMF's managing director, could be president of the European Commission.

Clinton remained cagy about her own plans, refusing to answer several times when Friedman asked her if she will seek the Democratic nomination in 2016.

After years of experience as a lawyer, U.S. senator, and secretary of state, as well as being the wife of a governor who then became president, Clinton said the double standard for women still exists. She said its survival in a "transformational" society like the United States shows how strong it is.

We have all either experienced it or at the very least seen it. And there is a deep set of cultural psychological views that are manifest through this double standard, Clinton said.

Clinton said the news media helps keep the double standard alive. She said young women need to learn how to deal with criticism -- not taking it personally -- and to develop resilience.

Believe me, she said, this is hard-won advice Im now putting forward here. Its not like you wake up and understand this. But its a process. And you need other women, you need your friends, to support you.

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