Hillary Clinton
Essays

This paper answers three questions related to gender. The first is on how women political candidates use social media differently compared to men. The second is on ways in which educating a girls results to improved livelihood for herself and the society. The last is on how poverty is a "gendered" or feminized experience for women around the world.

According to a recent study (Vedantam, 2006), Americans are more socially isolated than they were in 1985, with the number of people with whom they can confide dropping by one third, from three close confidents to two. American is viewed as a fragmented society with splinters of people growing ever more distant with regard to intimate social ties. Despite the benefits of close social connections, people report being alone, feeling alone, and suffering alone in bad times. The ability of digital social networks to support substantive civic engagement is more than a test of the media's capacity to convey and renew civic engagement—it is also a test of the transformative capacity of social networks with regard to sustained interest and action.