THE BIG READ: Hillary Clinton is steeling herself for presidential battle

For a female candidate, however strong, to garner enough votes to win the White House is going to be a challenge of historical proportions, reports Betty Browne

Hillary Clinton is preparing to enter the US presidential race in a fanfare of publicity. It is a race she can win because of who she is or lose because of who she is.

This is someone who can at once appear charming or arrogant, at once disciplined or controlling, all of which might be acceptable, even laudable, to voters if she were male.