Thursday, May 11, 2006

We need more women in power, listen up check out Sweden post, it can be done

"For four decades, working women have poured into the paid labor force. Yet American society has done precious little to restructure the workplace or family life. The result? Working mothers are burdened and exhausted, families are fractured and children are often neglected. The dirty little secret, we repeatedly tell each other, is that it is both profitable and convenient to our government, business and many men, for women to wear themselves out trying to do the unpaid work of caring for children, caring for the elderly and caring about the social networks of our communities.

It's as though Americans are trapped in a time warp, certain that women will still do all this caring, even though they can't, because more than half are outside their homes working in the paid workplace. And so, we have the mounting Care Crisis.

But somehow male progressives and liberals continue to view these problems as those of a special interest group and part of identity politics. Yet it is the core dilemma faced by most middle class and working class American families, all along the political spectrum."
read more at
Alternet

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just wanted to point this out...
In typical MI GOP fashion, Saul Anuzis has attacked the Governor on her jobs diary page with nothing to back it up. It's worth checkng out: http://www.granholmforgov.com/site/PageServer?pagename=homepage2

1:13 PM  
Blogger Anne Damm said...

Thanks for bring attention to this......and your response to Saul was well said. Granholm is bringing jobs, and doing everything possible to stem the loss from GM, Ford, and Delphi, an overwhelming pursuit that has nothing to do with her governance and everything to do with our over-dependence on the auto industries.

10:47 PM  

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