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Progressive Lamentations
Campus Report ^ | October 20, 2009 | Allie Winegar Duzett

Posted on 10/20/2009 11:26:50 AM PDT by bs9021

Progressive Lamentations

Allie Winegar Duzett, October 20, 2009

Is the government’s proper role to take care of gender inequality? Speakers believed so at the October 19, 2009 Shriver Report conference, A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything. The event, which is sponsored by the George Soros-funded Center for American Progress (CAP), featured multiple panels discussing the role of government in women’s lives.

Ellen Bravo, moderator of the panel The Government’s Role in Supporting Today’s Families and coordinator of the Families Values at Work Consortium, announced that the government has had far more roles than just governing: indeed, Ellen stated, it is part of the government’s role “to be a model employer,” “to gather and collect data” on women in the workplace, and “to showcase what can be.”

Ann O’Leary, a senior fellow at CAP, agreed with Bravo’s assessment, saying that “we’ve come a long way since 1978, but not far enough.” She recommended “drastic changes” to our current American employment scene, in order to make parenting easier in the modern age. This goal seems innocuous enough, but O’Leary’s specific suggestions included the government forcing employers to give up “rules that were created for men” in favor of rules that make employers cater to women generally and pregnant women specifically. “Our government doesn’t do enough [for pregnant women],” O’Leary accused. “This has to change.”

O’Leary also suggested a “comprehensive” child care plan for working parents, saying, “Government needs to step up [in providing child care for workers], not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it’s good for business.” It is telling that while O’Leary mentioned government involvement in child care being good for business, she did not state that it was good for families....

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: cap; feminism; gender; inequality

1 posted on 10/20/2009 11:26:52 AM PDT by bs9021
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To: bs9021

And when all of these “mandates” hurt business and results in job losses, what will they do then?

It’s fine for business to provide day care help and be a family friendly workplace. It’s a big difference, though, if we have government set all the standards and be the enforcer of “fairness”, “equality” or whatever other buzz word they are throwing around.


2 posted on 10/20/2009 11:44:28 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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