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The last time Hillary Rodham Clinton ran for president, she seemed torn over whether to emphasize her chance to make history, or to play down her gender and reassure voters that she was tough enough for the job. This time there is no question: Mrs. Clinton’s potential to break what she has called “the highest and hardest glass ceiling” is already central to her fledgling 2016 presidential campaign. But rather than the assertive feminism associated with her years as first lady, Mrs. Clinton’s campaign message will be subtler. It will involve frequent references to being a mother and grandmother and...

The mold-breaking candidate "played on being a woman, but comes across as cold, frigid and robotic, and women are disappointed with her," said a female entrepreneur. No, the voter wasn't in Des Moines dissing Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton; she was in Paris, thrashing French presidential contender Segolene Royal. When Royal's candidacy was announced, conventional political wisdom held that, because she was a woman, particularly in male-dominated France, female voters would flock to her. But Royal actually lost female support before the election, won by her conservative rival Nicolas Sarkozy. Which brings us to Hillary. If France's dalliance with girl power...