Hillary Clinton may be having Sleepless in Seattle Nights and Heartburn because of the calls by Boy’s Town surrogates of Barack Obama to exit the Democratic Party’s race for the presidential nomination, but she ain’t budging ‘cause the girl’s got Mary Tyler Moore Show spunk.

“We need to let this contest continue,” she told the Washington Post Saturday. “I know there are some people who want to shut this process down, and I think they are wrong and I have no intention of stopping until we finish what we started, and until we see what happens in the next 10 contests, and until we resolve Florida and Michigan. And if we won't resolve it, we'll resolve it at the convention -- that's what credentials committees are for -- because I feel so strongly about this.” 

And in a conversation with two Democratic allies, she compared the situation to the “big boys” trying to bully a woman, according to interviews with them. 

It’s the last day of Women’s History Month, which most people don’t know because women’s issues have taken a back seat to race issues in this historic contest between the first African-American and the first woman to seek the nomination.

And this as women’s progress in the workplace has stalled and in some cases even regressed. In 2007, women earned median weekly wages of 80.2 cents for every dollar earned by men, down from 80.8 cents in 2006 and 81 cents in 2005, according to the

At the nation's largest 500 companies, women account for 50% of managers, but hold just 15.4% of senior executive jobs, down from 16.4% in 2005, according to a survey by Catalyst, the New York research firm and women's advocacy group. Almost three-quarters of these senior women are in jobs that rarely lead to the corner office. The number of senior women in "line" jobs that involve running a business, with responsibility for profits and losses, dropped to 27.5% last year from 29% in 2005, according to Catalyst.

At U.S. law firms, women accounted for 17.9% of partners in 2006, up from 14.2% of partners 1996, according to the directory of legal employers compiled by the National Association for Law Placement, even though women received 48% of law degrees granted in 2006 and 43.5% in 1996.

Women are a large force behind the candidacy of Hillary Clinton, but they have not coalesced behind her the way the African-American population has behind Barack Obama. Considering the continuing problems that women in American society face, one wonders why.  

According to the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC poll conducted last week, Democratic women favored Sen. Clinton over Sen. Obama, 52% to 40%, while Obama is carrying as high as 90 percent of the black vote in some contests. 

Not surprising is that democratic men consider Sen. Obama their candidate 52%, versus 36% for Sen. Clinton.  

In the irony of ironies, last week two celebrities posted separate opinions on Hillary’s candidacy on Obama's website The Huffington Post. One article, Hillary Clinton: Truth or Consequences was written by Carl Bernstein, Pulitzer Prize winner for All the President’s Men and former philandering husband of screenwriter Nora Ephron. The other, Hooked on Hillary was penned by the victim of Bernstein’s wandering wand, Miss Ephron herself. 

Miss Ephron, who wrote Heartburn, which recounts the true story of Bernstein’s affair with her good friend while she was pregnant with his child, demanded that Clinton withdraw from the race. 

Bernstein, the author of Clinton biography A Woman in Charge made no such demand but pretty much called Mrs. Clinton the “b” word in his article, designed to promote his book, and to play like the big boys and bully another woman. 

Like the screwball romantic comedies of Hollywood, the contest between Clinton and Obama could win an Academy Award for its extraordinary plotline.  Compare it to Ephron’s brilliant When Harry Met Sally, the story of a man and a woman who meet, hate each other, but in the end come together. 

Could this happen to Hillary and Barack? Is the dream team that people propose just some politician’s fantasy? I know, I know, stuff like that only happens in the movies. But hey, I’m a woman, and you know what men say about women: All women are just hopeless, silly romantics.  

But indulge me, after all, it’s the last day of Women’s History Month and besides, I feel a movie coming on…The Unsinkable Hillary Clinton.