Hillary Clinton has no regrets about not making it to the US presidential office and says she is "grateful" for being chosen as the secretary of State.
Interacting with students of the Delhi University, Clinton said she feels lucky at having being made it to the State Department as she never imagined that she would run for US presidency or become part of the administration when she was the president of her college.
"I feel grateful for the experience that I had...I could never otherwise think I could ever run for US president," she said replying to a question as to whether she thought she was deprived of the post because she was a woman.
Clinton, who had a successful career as a lawyer before taking up politics, she said, "we have come a long way since my mother who was born before probably even voting rights were given to women in US and had not graduated from college".
She said things have come a long way in her generation. "I look at 21st century womens' role and rights as an important issue," she said.
Clinton who met the members of an self-employed group SEWA in Mumbai said they were the example of women emancipation. Several womens'association from Pakistan have approached SEWA for guiding them for their empowerment, she said.
The wife of former US president Bill Clinton, who is also mother to a teenaged daughter, said balancing between family and professional life is a tough act to follow.
"I supported my husband during his pretty successful career.. my daughter was growing... You have to take care of family responsibility, attending to all your relationships," Clinton said.
Admitting that striking a balance between career and family was a tough job, she said, "you can't drop responsibility. It was hard".
"We certainly have many countries where women's laws are advanced, where women are in high positions, responsibility and influence.
"Still even in those countries, even in in my own country these are lingering issue not yet resolved," she said.
