The 2008 elections reinforced two sexist female stereotypes:

When Senator Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and Governor Sarah Palin, R-Alaska, ran for the top offices in the country, the White House’s glass ceiling looked like it might be shattered. But Amanda Fortini, a writer for New York Magazine, says the ?Year of the Woman? in presidential politics reinforced stereotypes, set women back and made President-elect Barack Obama’s road to gender equality a lot rockier.