Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton made a star turn yesterday at former President Bill Clinton’s conference on global challenges, calling for a concerted attack on the “feminization of poverty” to destroy political and economic barriers that trap women.
President Clinton also marked the conclusion of the three-day conference by announcing that participants had committed $7.3 billion to climate, health and antipoverty programs, and to efforts to foster ethnic and religious tolerance.
A similar conference last year, Mr. Clinton’s first, raised $2.5 billion in total commitments.
While the day included remarks by former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and the media baron Rupert Murdoch, it was Mrs. Clinton who drew a standing-room-only crowd of hundreds for a session called “Women and the Power of Economic Opportunity.”
That theme led to a discussion of political opportunity as well, and audience members applauded when Mrs. Clinton, a possible presidential candidate in 2008, suggested that the time would come for more women to assume high office.
(She did not mention when, however.)
In her opening remarks, the senator set the tone for the panel by lamenting that women in many countries cannot vote, run for office, or secure credit or capital to start business ventures......
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