Gender helped as much as hurt her. It is why the Democrats put up the wrong nominee: Democrats are desperate to get the first woman in the White House. So desperate they nominated one of the few candidates that could lose to Trump, regardless of Russian interference or all the mistakes she made that got the FBI involved in the first place. Or perhaps you are suggesting the US is one of the most gender-biased countries in the world--so many other countries have elected female leaders, but most don't carry around the self-inflicted wounds of Hilary Clinton.