It will take more than just one election to alter the integral qualities of the “good president”—qualities that, once altered, have the potential to affect the way that all women, even those far from the political playing field, are evaluated in positions of power. But that doesn’t mean that Clinton’s loss is a step back. She punched the glass ceiling so hard that the task of shattering it has become far less formidable. There will certainly be backlash; it will again expose the ugliest, most enduringly misogynist aspects of our society. But such are the wages of change—the
