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What I wrote about it in demanding that the latest crop of GOP female political candidates (aka Mama Grizzlies) address their policy position in regard to workplace policies and women – especially mama grizzlies-to-be.
Watch the Elena Kagan/Sen. Amy Klobuchar exchange:
Read an excerpt here of Kagan’s comments:
I don’t think it’s a matter of bad faith in this regard. But I do think that there are structural obstacles, that there are ways in which it’s — it’s hard to balance work and family, still harder for a woman than it is for a man. And that that often comes into play in the legal profession as it does elsewhere. And if you — if you look at these opportunities for women, you know — I think probably the best thing that we could do as a society but this isn’t the court’s rule, this really is congress’ role is to — to try to enable women and men, but i think that they especially strike women to — to manage those balances, the — the — the desire to have a fulfilling professional life and also the desire to have a wonderful family life, to manage that balance better and to sort of create the structures that enable them to do so.
…And one of the things that I did do there [when in the Clinton Administration] was to work on some of these issues, to work on issues relating to child care, for example. And to — to try to help women and men with these very difficult issues in how to have wonderful professional lives and also have wonderful family lives. [emphasis added]
Now is that really all that hard for the mama grizzlies or any policymaker, present or future, to commit to? Honestly.
Makes you want to run for office so you can make some policy, doesn’t it? Check out the BlogHer/White House Project training I’m keynoting or The 2012 Project, from the incredibly well-regarded and completely non-partisan Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 7:57 pm June 30th, 2010 in Business, Congress, conservatives, democracy, Elections, employment, Gender, intolerance, Law, leadership, Parenting, Politics, Republicans, Sexism, Social Issues, Women, Youth
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