Leadership Quote by Hillary Clinton

Globalization is supposed to be the story we tell ourselves about shared prosperity. Clinton punctures that comforting myth with a blunt reframing: the “march” isn’t neutral progress, it’s a process with winners and losers, and women and girls are too often filed under “acceptable collateral.”

The phrasing matters. “In too many instances” is classic political calibration, a way to indict a pattern without pretending every cross-border supply chain is a villain. It gives her room to sound pro-globalization while still demanding reform. But the subtext is sharper: if marginalization keeps recurring, it’s not an accident of transition; it’s a feature of how markets, labor, and power get organized when gender is treated as a side issue. “March” carries militaristic inevitability, suggesting that policy elites have treated globalization like destiny rather than a set of choices. Clinton’s sentence insists it’s choices all the way down.

Contextually, this line sits in the post-1990s consensus that trade and liberalization are broadly good, tempered by mounting evidence of uneven outcomes: export-led factories reliant on low-wage female labor, care work outsourced across borders, austerity policies that hit women’s services first, and cultural backlash that tightens control over girls as communities feel destabilized. Clinton is also doing brand work: positioning women’s rights as an economic and geopolitical metric, not a charitable add-on.

“And that must change” is the kicker - moral language with executive posture. No technocratic caveats, no “should.” It’s a demand for agency: globalization isn’t fate; it’s governance.