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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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For decades, questions posed to Hillary Rodham Clinton have turned on the subject of hair. But for all the eyerolls, that famous coif in all its scrunchie-to-bob iterations has turned out to be a very helpful talking point.

The occasion Thursday night was Tina Browns Women In the World conference in New York, and it was New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman introduced by Brown as a sensitive man who asked the former secretary of State and her co-panelist, International Monetary Fund Chief Christine Lagarde, to reflect on whether there was still a double standard in the media about how we talk about women in public life.

To laughter, Friedman recalled a news clip in which Clinton had said shed flown all night to meet with a foreign leader and had tied her hair back and you said when you came into the room, he was really frightened, Friedman said, because he had heard that when your hair was back, you were going to deliver unpleasant news.

Really, Tom? Clinton said with pause as the audience laughed (and Friedman rejoined that he was just moderating at the forum as a human sacrifice).

There is a double standard, obviously," she said. "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 recalled that as a young lawyer she had read an advice column in an Arkansas newspaper advising male professionals to decorate their office with family pictures to show they were a responsible, reliable family man, while suggesting that women should not, because visitors would think you wont be able to concentrate on your work.

Some of those attitudes, we know, persist, Clinton said at the New York summit Thursday. And thats why it's important that we surface them, and why we talk about them, and help men and women recognize when they are crossing over from an individual judgment which were all prone to make and have a right to make about somebody, man or woman into a stereotype.

So yeah, she added, the double standard is alive and well, and I think, in many respects the media is principal propagator of its persistence. And I think the media needs to be more self-consciously aware of that.

Touching on now-familiar talking points that have helped her connect with millennials, and particularly young women, Clinton said she was still concerned about the disparate attitudes of young men and women toward professional advancement.

Too many young women are harder on themselves than circumstances warrant, said Clinton, who is weighing a run for the presidency in 2016. At this point in my life and career Ive employed so many young people and one of the differences is, whenever I would say to a young woman, I want you to do this. I want you to take on this extra responsibility. I want you to move up almost invariably they would say Do you think I can? or Do you think Im ready?

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