The narratives surrounding Hillary Clinton's pneumonia diagnosis and her health this week have been filtered through the routine partisan lenses. Very little has been said about how her insistence on toughing it out until a sick day was unavoidable is not simply the American way, but an American woman's way of navigating gendered health dynamics in the United States.
People's capacity to take time away from work when they are sick is stratified by gender, ethnicity, immigration status and class dynamics in the United States. Clinton's options are simultaneously specific to her and emblematic of larger struggles women across the United States face.
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