Hillary Clinton announced on April 12, 2015 that she would be running as a democratic candidate for President of the United States in 2016.  If Hillary wins, she will be the first woman ever to hold presidential office.

According to her campaign page, Clinton said, “Everyday Americans need a champion. I want to be that champion.”

On Clinton`s extensive resume she can include: Secretary of State, Senator of New York, First Lady of the United States, First Lady of Arkansas, a practicing lawyer and law professor, activist, volunteer and also an advocate for women`s rights.

“It is no longer acceptable to discuss women’s rights as separate from human rights,” said Clinton in her Remarks to the U.N. 4th World Conference on Women Plenary Session.

Clinton initially ran for the Democratic Presidential Nomination in 2008 but lost to Barack Obama, the current president of the United States. This time around she hopes that she will be more successful and enter into the White House, not as the First Lady, but as a woman who has broken the glass ceiling.

Almost a century after women were given the right to vote, a woman has yet to take the office as president.

“Hillary Clinton . . . reminds us that we’re still a long way away from gender equality. Her candidacy embodies the compromises and the qualifications that so frequently make a woman’s route to success more circuitous and perilous than those of her male peers,” said Rebecca Mead, writer for the New Yorker.