BETHANY MANDEL: Lindsay Clancy supporters may see mistrial as a victory — but it’s really a step backward for womankind.

Millions of American women are celebrating a victory of sorts this weekend — a hung jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial.

The case’s future is uncertain. It will likely be difficult to find enough jurors capable of coming to an unbiased decision after the entire country has been riveted by this trial.

It appears that 11 members of the jury favored some form of leniency, whether a not guilty by reason of insanity verdict or a lesser conviction, while one male holdout forced the jury to hang. He was, it appeared, a modern-day “Juror 8” from the famous play Twelve Angry Men — but in reverse*.

This is a victory for Clancy, whose team will now enter either another trial with the prospect of another sympathetic jury or plea negotiations with the upper hand.

* In more ways than one: Did 12 Angry Men get it wrong?