Five Political Candidates Can't Carry All Our Diaper Bags
source: http://www.womensenews.org/story/momagenda/101019/five-candidates-cant-carry-all-our-diaper-...
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When mothers of young children got elected to Congress a nursing room and day-care center opened on Capitol grounds. That's the kind of representation and advocacy that parents with young children need out here in the real world.
"Women aged 40 and younger are nearly absent from elected office and we need their voices to help shape policy and lead our country," the Political Action Committee's site says. "Their perspectives as working professionals, mothers, caretakers and community activists are critical to the political conversation."
To my under-40 mom-of-two-young-sons' ears that sounds good. Especially the two key words: "mothers" and "caretakers."
WUFPAC doesn't require its candidates to have young children. But under-40s are the people most personally sensitive--through their own brood or those of friends and contemporaries--to issues such as paid parental leave, incentives for telecommuting, protection of reproductive rights and subsidies for the exorbitant cost of child care.
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http://www.womensenews.org/story/momagenda/101019/five-candidates-cant-carry-all...
"Women aged 40 and younger are nearly absent from elected office and we need their voices to help shape policy and lead our country," the Political Action Committee's site says. "Their perspectives as working professionals, mothers, caretakers and community activists are critical to the political conversation."
To my under-40 mom-of-two-young-sons' ears that sounds good. Especially the two key words: "mothers" and "caretakers."
WUFPAC doesn't require its candidates to have young children. But under-40s are the people most personally sensitive--through their own brood or those of friends and contemporaries--to issues such as paid parental leave, incentives for telecommuting, protection of reproductive rights and subsidies for the exorbitant cost of child care.
Get the full breakdown of Women in Politics at Women's eNews
http://www.womensenews.org/story/momagenda/101019/five-candidates-cant-carry-all...
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